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Excellent article in HT

#Lucknoiw Dr Susheel Gattani, founder chairman @HospitalMedics said social taboo was observed to be attached with sanitary napkins, wherein a majority of girls and women hesitate to go to medicine outlets to buy them. Prof. Geeta Kingdon @ToiletICO Swachh Bharat Mission - Grameen

कैरेक्टर एजूकेशन एण्ड फ्यूचर इम्पैक्ट पर अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय सम्मेलन 2 व 3 फरवरी को indiawatchnews.com/news/Internati…

‘Proud to Be Me’ initiative stresses on hygiene during periods via Hindustan Times m.hindustantimes.com/lucknow/proud-…

The law of unintended consequences strikes again: "Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India’s Child Labor Ban" by Bharadwaj, Leah Lakdawala, & Li. Forthcoming at JEEA. prbharadwaj.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/childl…

The Parth Shah interview: If private players frame the curriculum, there will be less ideological bias, rewriting of textbooks goo.gl/MHfYoj via @xpress_edex #thinkedu Centre for Civil Society @nisaindia Indian School of Public Policy

Simplest example: about 1.1 million 18 yr olds in 1990. Around 1.6 L totally took (CBSE/ISC) class 12 exams that yr ... including repeaters. "Elite" systems in those days. About 1.3 m 18 yr olds today. Some 12 L took those exams this yr. Just an indicator of people rising.

What role do private school chains play in education systems? New Center for Global Development blog by Lee Crawfurd & me TL/DR: donors & DFIs should spend less time & money on private school chains & more teaching millions of kids NOT in chain schools cgdev.org/blog/unchained… youtube.com/watch?v=8fgUY-…

What happens when you deregulate the teacher labor market? newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/res…

Don't think people realize the second and third order impact of private school chains; multigenerational impact at times. "Chain" arrives only after one setup succeeds (survival by fire) - good practices/pedagogy/syllabus spreads. Others begin to mimic. cgdev.org/blog/unchained…

Former AP education commissioner Sandhya Rani: integrated data found more than 5 lac students enrolled in both Govt and private schools! Saved Rs 100 crore on midday meals n Rs 25 crore in printing textbooks ⁦Nexus of Good⁩ ⁦.⁩ ⁦⁦Centre for Civil Society⁩ ⁦

Rs 15,000 per family per year is really a decent amount to genuinely empower parental choice. CMO Andhra Pradesh should promise now to continue this every year and quench the rumours about it being one off grant. Luis Miranda Prof. Geeta Kingdon Niranjan Rajadhyaksha Reuben Abraham Amit Chandra

This being the first “pandemic in the age of social media” (pitasm—pronunced “pie tasm”) it feels different from previous pandemics. Pitasm, being new, is bound to cause more panic but, for the same reason, is likely to be contained better than pandemics before tasm.

Baha'u'llah envisions a society worthy of the nobility of the human spirit & founded on principles that reinforce it bicentenary.bahai.org/universal-hous…

1/4 of Pakistani men gave up 1/5th of a day's wages to avoid anonymously expressing gratitude to America for the $$. dl.dropboxusercontent.com/content_link/C…

Backlash by private schools...They observed 'Black Day' today to raise their concerns against the perceived menacing governance environment x.com/chillrparty/st…

Such private school closures deprive kids of their right to education paradoxically in the name of an Act that avows to secure that right! x.com/amitctweets/st…

Time to make 7-9 year olds give their first "digital commands"

An intensely service minded and public-spirited development economist - Jean Dreze telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-day-…

Great panel reflecting on the main finding from the #WDR2018 World Bank Report on #Education and its relevance for #India, co-convened by World Bank India and Centre for Policy Research: Venita Kaul, Vyjayanthi Sankar, Prof. Geeta Kingdon and N.V. Varghese providing provocative perspectives.