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LESSON PLANS: The strategic DNA of Affordable Private Schools?
Usha Ganesh
Sep 26, 2010

Affordable private school owners are a canny lot. They have built these schools up from scratch, they know their constraints and they know their market well. They handle high attrition of teachers, ill-equipped teachers, demanding parents and competition from other APS with their own brand of strategies and strong networking among competing APS. Lesson plans created for APS teachers form part of the support system that service providers offer the school as well as a strategic solution to many of the APS constraints.

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Lack of Technology in the Most Impoverished Schools Allows for Innovative Solutions
Irene D. Pritzker
Sep 20, 2010

The Enterprising Schools September theme of Curriculum Tools and Technology draws into question the lack of technology in the most impoverished schools in developing countries around the world.  How we can think of technology in a different context than we are accustomed to in our every day lives?

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Running the Last Mile
Sujatha Muthayya
Sep 13, 2010

Designing curriculum tools and technology relevant to the specific learning needs of students is the first step towards successful engagement with affordable private schools. Working on the adoption of these tools and technologies to ensure that desired learning outcomes are met is then the real challenge.

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Ecosystem Development: What is the Need of the Hour?
Sarayu Natarajan
Sep 06, 2010

So we’ve heard about the challenges in finding entrepreneurs in my previous post. The challenges are around accessing a disaggregated market, the existence of other alternatives and the lack of opportunities to pilot. On top of this, there is a mindset issue to overcome. These challenges need to be combated with innovative strategies.

What’s out there?

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Will Parents Pay?
Deepti Doshi
Sep 02, 2010

You don’t have to be an educator to recognize that any intervention to improve the quality of education is going to take time; an investment in teacher training, for example, is not going to have immediate results. For that reason, improving the quality of education in low-cost private schools is a tough challenge: For the school owner, investing in quality is often a gamble, with an upfront cost and no guarantee to attract more students or be able to increase fees.

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