00883pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002100040245005300061260000900114300001400123362001000137520051000147650002400657650002200681773003400703180718b2006   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMajumdar, Manabi  aPrimary education: debating quality and quantity  c2006  ap.785-88.  a4 Mar  aA recent workshop sought to identify persistent "trouble spots" in the primary education school system in states of West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. As it appears, top-down assistance is only one factor among many other that distinguishes a better performing school from a non-performing one. Other vital factors that raised the "quality" of schooling related to issues of decentralisation and autonomy, the quality of teaching as well as initiative taken to educate less privileged children. - Reproduced.  aEducational quality  aPrimary education  aEconomic and Political Weekly