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# Education — Syllabus

## Books

1. [The Beautiful Tree](https://www.amazon.in/BEAUTIFUL-TREE-DHARAMPAL/dp/8175310952) — Dharampal

2. [The Beautiful Tree: A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves](https://www.amazon.in/dp/B00ELPRLC0) — James Tooley

## Academic Papers

1. [Annual Status of Education Reports](https://asercentre.org/aser-2024/) — ASER Centre

2. [Teacher Compensation: Can Decentralisation to Local Bodies Take India from the Perfect Storm Through Troubled Waters to Clear Sailing?](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2006_pritchett.pdf) — Lant Pritchett and Rinku Murgai

3. [Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot](https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article/3/2-3/658/2281517) — Michael Kremer, Nazmul Chaudhury, F. Halsey Rogers, Karthik Muralidharan, Jeffrey Hammer

4. [Teacher Unions in India: Diverse and Powerful](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/comparative-politics-of-education/teacher-unions-in-india-diverse-and-powerful/E1C1E9E4DBAA9AF916303CCB67AC8B8B) — Tara Béteille, Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, and Mohammad Muzammil

5. [A Political Economy of Education in India: The Case of Uttar Pradesh](https://ceid.educ.cam.ac.uk/publications/OPI_KingdonMuzammil20081.pdf) — Geeta Kingdon and Mohd. Muzammil

6. [Why Private Education is Good for the Poor](https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/tooley.pdf) — James Tooley and Pauline Dixon (Cato Institute)

7. [The Risks to Education Systems from Design Mismatch and Global Isomorphism](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications/faculty-working-papers/risks-education-systems-design-mismatch-and-global-isomorphism) — Lant Pritchett

8. [Where Has All the Education Gone?](https://academic.oup.com/wber/article-abstract/15/3/367/1657648?login=false) — Lant Pritchett

9. [The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India: A Review](https://docs.iza.org/dp10612.pdf) — Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

## Reports

1. [Anatomy of K-12 Governance in India](https://ccs.in/sites/default/files/2022-08/anatomy_of_k-12_governance_in_india_1.pdf) — Centre for Civil Society

2. [Governance Challenges in K-12 Education in India](https://ccs.in/sites/default/files/2022-08/governance-challenges-in-k-12-education-in-india.pdf) — Bhuvana Anand and Tarini Sudhakar

3. [Ease of Operating Private Schools in India](https://ccs.in/sites/default/files/2024-08/gem-report-final.pdf) — Prashant Narang and Tarini Sudhakar

4. [Ease of Operations for Budget Private Schools in India](https://ccs.in/ease-operations-budget-private-schools-india) — UNESCO / Centre for Civil Society

5. [Reimbursements under RTE Section 12(2): Too Little, Too Late](https://ccs.in/node/159) — Centre for Civil Society

6. [Direct Benefit Transfer in Education: A Policy Blueprint](https://ccs.in/sites/default/files/2022-10/dbt-in-education-policy-brief.pdf) — Ritika Shah and Celia Xinuo Chen

## Articles & Blog Posts

1. [There Is No Role for Government in Owning and Running Schools](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/seeing-the-invisible/there-is-no-role-for-government-in-owning-and-running-schools/) — Sanjeev Sabhlok

2. [Busting Myths and the Double-Speak on Education](https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/busting-myths-and-the-double-speak-on-education/story-Ozl6OZBxDzmVUWMevgMSjI.html) — Gurcharan Das

3. [One and a Half Cheers: National Education Policy Promises Much, but Fails to Come to Grips with India's Education Crisis](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/men-and-ideas/one-and-a-half-cheers-national-education-policy-promises-much-but-fails-to-come-to-grips-with-indias-education-crisis/) — Gurcharan Das

4. [Private Schools in India: Over-Regulated and Under-Appreciated](https://world-education-blog.org/2023/01/30/private-schools-in-india-over-regulated-and-under-appreciated/) — Prashant Narang

5. [Schooling Is Not a Public Good](https://fee.org/articles/schooling-is-not-a-public-good/) — Corey DeAngelis

6. [The Difference Between Positive and Negative Rights](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/is-there-right-health-care) — Trevor Burrus

## Podcasts & Videos

1. [Concentrated Benefits and Dispersed Costs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCQkCyCvk9M) — Center for Study of Public Choice

2. [Friedman's Law of Spending](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RDMdc5r5z8)

3. [The Profit Motive in Education](https://seenunseen.in/episodes/2017/3/13/episode-9-the-profit-motive-in-education/) — Parth J Shah in conversation with Amit Varma

4. [A Deep Dive into Education](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa_ZXlqwmSM) — Ajay Shah and Amit Varma

5. [What Does It Take to Open a Private School in Delhi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk9T5mG7i5A) — Centre for Civil Society

6. [Schools in India: Public vs Private](https://idronline.org/podcasts/on-the-contrary-podcast-social-impact/government-schools-or-private-schools-what-is-india-choosing/) — India Development Review (IDR)

7. [One Million Teacher Vacancies That Should Never Be Filled](https://ccs.in/node/1181) ([Part 1](https://ccs.in/node/1181) and [Part 2](https://ccs.in/node/1183)) — Centre for Civil Society

8. [Education Financing: Filling a Sieve with Water](https://ccs.in/node/1186) — Centre for Civil Society