Montessori

Management of Elementary Education

EDUCATION FOR ALL – MID DECADE ASSESSMENT

EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND
EDUCATION IN INDIA

Venita Kaul
Deepa Sankar

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION
NEW DELHI i Education for All – Mid-Decade Assessment

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Preface
The World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal approved a comprehensive vision of
Education for All (EFA) to be achieved by 2015 based on the six goals. The six goals relate to the areas of early childhood care and education, universalising primary education, gender, youth and adolescents, adult education and quality of education.
The main focus is on ‘reaching the unreached’ for ensuring complete coverage of education. With this background the Mid- Decade Assessment of Education for All was initiated to take stock of the progress made with respect to EFA Goals.
Corresponding to this exercise, a comprehensive review of the progress made with respect to Education for All in India was conducted jointly by Government of India and the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA).
The present work which is a sequel to the National Report consists of a series of thematic and state review papers. There are nine thematic review papers covering all the six goals including three additional papers on three other themes, namely,
Teacher and Teacher Education, Management Strategies for EFA and Financing of
EFA in India. These

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