Caste…what caste?

(This post was written by Akanksha Bapna, Coordinator, Research at CCS.)

The declaration by the Gujarat Department of Education to remove any derogatory reference to caste, religion, profession or gender from school textbooks and their ban on the use of surnames to…

Innovative voucher model from Pakistan

In 2006, Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) launched its Education Voucher Scheme (EVS) with an aim to bring education to children belonging to less affluent and underprivileged families, who would otherwise have been deprived from the benefits of schooling. The…

Govt plays vote bank politics under guise of RTE reservations, say schools

New Delhi, Jun 14, 2012, DHNS

Several small-budget schools in Delhi and 11 other states alleged that the government is trying to create a vote bank by encouraging reservation…

The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in Graphs

The Atlantic has published some really cool graphs illustrating 2000 years of the economic history of different nations. The charts are very informative, illuminating, and fun to look at. (HT: Daphne Vallado)

Elinor Ostrom, First Women to Win the Nobel Prize in Economics, Dies at 78

(This is a guest post by Sudhanshu Neema, CCS Researching Reality Intern 2012)

The American political economist, Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in…

Subsidized Higher Education Comes at a High Cost

(This post was written by Namrata Narayan, Associate, Communications at CCS)

We the People had an interesting conversation regarding government funded colleges that heavily subsidise student fees, even for the families…

Achieving Education for All in a ‘Hot, Flat and Crowded’ India

Recent reading of two seemingly disparate issues made me question if they might be connected after all? The first was in Thomas L. Friedman’s 2008 book — Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution and…

Anna Schwartz, the Mother of Monetarism, Dies at 96

(This post was written by Deeksha Supyaal Bisht, volunteer at CCS.)

Anna Schwartz, a well-known American monetary economist, known as “high priestess of Monetarism,” died at the age of 96, this Thursday.