• Read: Opposing viewpoints in the debate:
  • Justin Sandefur (Center for Global Development): http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11047 [pro-privates]
  • Kevin Watkins (Brookings Institution): http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11064 [pro-publics] §
• Read: Oxfam, “Resourcing Global Education” http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/resourcing-global-education.pdf. This document expands on the pro-publics position. The good people at Oxfam make the case for increased levels of bilateral assistance by the U.S. and other rich countries to poor countries in order to build schools, train teachers, and provide school supplies. They would also support the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), one of which is to achieve universal primary education. To help poor countries make progress toward this goal, Oxfam advocates for the financing of the Fast Track Initiative (FTI), which, since 2002, has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to an educational fund serving the poorest of the poor worldwide.
• View: James Tooley on Stossel. http://www.cato.org/multimedia/video-highlights/james-tooley-discusses-private-education-poor-countries-fbns-stossel [7 min.]
• View: “The Education Divide in Hyderabad”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olGE0QeHiG8 [4:15]
• View: Pauline Dixon, “How slum schools are serving the poorest”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzv4nBoXoZc [15:30]
• Read: James Tooley. (2009). The beautiful tree: A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute. http://www.cato.org/store/books/beautiful-tree-personal-journey-how-worlds-poorest-people-are-educating-themselves-hardback This is the core text for the course and should be read in its entirety. Tooley is a great storyteller, descriptively chronicling his own “journey” to social worlds where he documents private forms of schooling serving slum dwellers and rural poor.

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Select Forums from the Course Links navigation menu. After reviewing the information about the discussion forums, select and engage Topic # 4.

1. Review of lessons learned in internships

2. Debate: Four arguments on each side of the Public vs private schools sector from the literature.  Improve on the following:  Govt vs Private ppt

3. Review of your group assignments designing a rubric for analysis of the types of schools you are engaging (Submission date Jan 30th for Project 4). Discussion of implementation.

4. Discussion on peer review grading process.

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