Santhosh looks at the choices before poor parents in India:
Linked by kuffir. Join Blogbharti facebook group.It no surprise that the worst quality private schools are targeted at the poor. Typically, a poor uneducated parent who has high aspirations for their children, has limited information to evaluate school quality, both in-terms of inputs as well as outputs. Sujatha’s older son, who is entering the fifth grade, struggles with basic addition and can hardly read a sentence. In our hurry in endorsing private education, we are not only forcing the poor to make hard choices in spending their money, but also creating false aspirations about their children’s education.
You talk about parents having limited information to evaluate quality. I’m actually trying to put together a local periodical in which there will be various articles for parents. The problem is most articles/sources that I’ve come across are for an urban/middle-class audience. Do you know of anything that has been written for (or at least about) a rural audience?