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100			_aBanerjee, Abhijit et al.
245			_aCan information campaigns raise awareness and local participation in primary education?
260			_c2007
300			_ap.1365-372.
362			_a14 Apr
520			_aA central plank of public policy for improving primary education services in India is the participation of village education committees, consisting of village government leaders, parents, and teachers. This paper reports the findings from a survey in a rural district in Uttar Pradesh. Rural households, parents, teachers and VEC members were surveyed on the status of education services and the extent of community participation in the public delivery of education services. Most parents do not know that a VEC exists, public participation in improving education in negligible, and large numbers of children in the villages have not acquired basic competencies of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Based on the findingsof the baseline survey, this paper also describes a set of information and advocacy campaigns that have been designed to explore whether local participation can increase, and future research plans to evaluate the impact of these interventions. - Reproduced.
650			_aEducation
650			_aPrimary education
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
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