According to education scholar and activist Amit Chandra, education in India is a fraud committed on the people of this country by the state. He joins Amit Varma in episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen to explain why.

Also check out: The Profit Motive in Education: Episode 9 of The Seen and the Unseen (http://www.seenunseen.in/episodes/2017/3/13/episode-9-the-profit-motive-in-education)

The Right to Screw up Education: Episode 19 of The Seen and the Unseen (https://www.thinkpragati.com/podcast/the-seen-and-the-unseen/1462/right-screw-education/)

Data on School Closures (http://nisaindia.org/data-on-school-closures)

Our Unlucky Children -- Amit Varma (Jan 2008)(http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/our-unlucky-children/)

Annual Status of Education (ASER) Report 2017 (http://www.asercentre.org/Keywords/p/315.html)

The Aggregate Effect of School Choice -- Karthik Muralidharan & Venkatesh Sundararaman (https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/130/3/1011/1931887)

A political economy of education in India: The case of UP -- Geeta Kingdon & Mohd. Muzammil (http://ceid.educ.cam.ac.uk/publications/OPI_KingdonMuzammil20081.pdf)

Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot (https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article-abstract/3/2-3/658/2281517?redirectedFrom=fulltext)

According to education scholar and activist Amit Chandra, education in India is a fraud committed on the people of this country by the state. He joins Amit Varma in episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen to explain why. Also check out: The Profit Motive in Education: Episode 9 of The Seen and the Unseen (<a href="http://www.seenunseen.in/episodes/2017/3/13/episode-9-the-profit-motive-in-education" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.seenunseen.in/episodes/2017/3/13/episode-9-the-profit-motive-in-education</a>) The Right to Screw up Education: Episode 19 of The Seen and the Unseen (<a href="https://www.thinkpragati.com/podcast/the-seen-and-the-unseen/1462/right-screw-education/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.thinkpragati.com/podcast/the-seen-and-the-unseen/1462/right-screw-education/</a>) Data on School Closures (<a href="http://nisaindia.org/data-on-school-closures" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://nisaindia.org/data-on-school-closures</a>) Our Unlucky Children -- Amit Varma (Jan 2008)(<a href="http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/our-unlucky-children/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/our-unlucky-children/</a>) Annual Status of Education (ASER) Report 2017 (<a href="http://www.asercentre.org/Keywords/p/315.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.asercentre.org/Keywords/p/315.html</a>) The Aggregate Effect of School Choice -- Karthik Muralidharan & Venkatesh Sundararaman (<a href="https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/130/3/1011/1931887" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/130/3/1011/1931887</a>) A political economy of education in India: The case of UP -- Geeta Kingdon & Mohd. Muzammil (<a href="http://ceid.educ.cam.ac.uk/publications/OPI_KingdonMuzammil20081.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://ceid.educ.cam.ac.uk/publications/OPI_KingdonMuzammil20081.pdf</a>) Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot (<a href="https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article-abstract/3/2-3/658/2281517?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article-abstract/3/2-3/658/2281517?redirectedFrom=fulltext</a>)

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According to education scholar and activist Amit Chandra, education in India is a fraud committed on the people of this country by the state. He joins Amit Varma in episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen to explain why. Also check out: The Profit...

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