On Alternative Education front the most successful models that I had learnt in a seminar I attended in Dec on Social Entrepreneurship are Rishi Valley school, Madanepally, AP and Bodh in Jaipur.
In Chennai, one of the ex-directors of SSA has studied various models and adopted Rishi Valley School's model for the Govt schools which are under his per-view and the success rate is very high. They have less drop outs, and more learning happening. I have an offer from Padmanabha Rao, director of Rishi Valley to visit to his school and study their model. I was planning to mail in detail about this, but had been engaged in many things over the past few months and its becoming difficult to put together the information. We can plan a team, and visit the school and spend time with the program directors and see how we can replicate. They are very cooperative and do not worry about their name being attached for replication. Their point of view is to spread this kind of education to the grass root levels all over and are very cooperative to help anyone replicating. Cheers Chaitanya On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:40 AM, harinath <[email protected]> wrote: > > > btw, if we can contribute 5 lakhs, we can actually get a govt school named > after our group. :-). > This option is possible in hyderbad district. > > This actually means that SSA releases funds to the tune of 20 lakhs and we > contribute 5 lakhs and then we get the school after the name we want. > > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Rakesh Aryasomayajula < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> We can. Someday the education system has to be reformed. >> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Prasanthi Uppalapati < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Dear Birds, >>> >>> Greetings. >>> >>> Most of the groups in BosF talk about reforms in Education system. Why >>> not we set up one with our current strength? >>> >>> These are my wild thoughts :) >>> >>> There will be more activity based education and fun filled learning. >>> Motto - The end of all education is the desire to learn. The end of all >>> education is building of character. >>> >>> The students should be confident about life, look forward to future with >>> hope and work with zeal and enthusiasm in the present. We will teach them >>> the useful things in life but not theory. >>> >>> Let us draft a different pattern to grade children and counsel them where >>> their talents are. >>> >>> Is this possible? Can we try? >>> >>> -- >>> Thank you. >>> >>> with regards, >>> PRASANTHI. >>> http://groups.google.com/group/birdsofsamefeathers >>> ---- >>> When you want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to >>> achieve it. >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Regards... > Harinath > http://harinath.in > > > > >
