whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...ou should check out his other OLPC speeches on http://www.olpctalks.com My favorite is his comment that schools need \"magic\" and pilot projects are ridiculous http://www.olpcnews.com/implementat...

2. Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
(Analysis/Analysis)

...is is before the contributions required from parents to complement the subsidy. According to PSSA (Private Schools South Africa) the majority of the 2,000 private schools charge less than R 8,000 per ...

3. Black Swans, Cost Overruns and Industrial Tariffs
(Analysis/Analysis)

...swans" to explain precisely why the cost overruns were necessary and why we didn't need the extra schools or hospitals. The latest on this is that government is to reduce tariffs on products...

4. One Laptop Per Child, now costing 75% more ...
(Analysis/Analysis)

...US $ 175 million to purchase a batch of computers.  That alone, in South Africa, would pay for 65 new schools.  And we do need them.  As ME Surty, the deputy minister of education, decl...

5. We're from Mars and we want to help: four lessons in development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...stainable habits with donations and largesse.  Young Martians come to Earth as volunteers and work in schools and factories, not teaching, just doing what we used to do far better than we can our...

6. The Martians Really Care: four points to govern development
(Analysis/Ideas and Challenges)

... the show.  Rural Poland plays host to thousands of eccentric aliens who enjoy the climate and set up schools where they teach in their own language in a way totally foreign to the locals.  ...

7. Government rewards the worst schools for poor performance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...r lives. True to form, Gauteng education MEC Angie Motshekga has dropped her threat to close dysfunctional schools.  “We will be able to turn them around,” Motshekga said yesterday of...

8. Does Africa need the most expensive school in the world?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ed in a previous post, is this really the most effective use of resources? The most expensive independent schools in South Africa offering the best educations, and including room and board, charge ab...

9. X Challenge: Develop the cheapest most effective school
(Analysis/Analysis)

...y the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), they show that higher computer use in schools correlates with lower maths scores and a reduced reading ability.  One laptop pe...

10. How much does a free education cost?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...be painted on, the academy is an expensive way to achieve its objectives.  The most expensive private schools in the country charge around $ 6 900 per year for tuition and produce internationally...

11. School vouchers offer the poorest an opportunity to learn at better schools
(Analysis/Analysis)

...bsp; The standard approach, followed by virtually every government in the world, is that they should build schools, staff them, and supply their services at a subsidised price in order to promote educ...

12. "Madiba's children" failed by their government
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ern education.  It has failed, and failed spectacularly. It is no surprise that the number of private schools in South Africa is blossoming.  There are now 1 098 of them, and their universit...

13. Senescence, the death of development
(Analysis/Analysis)

...l over the show. Rural Poland plays host to thousands of eccentric aliens who enjoy the climate and set up schools where they teach in their own language in a way totally foreign to the locals. They w...

14. Vouchers and Individual Choice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ople. Then I really don’t care what happens and my spending may take on biblical proportions. Public schools are a public good where politicians spend taxpayers’ money on other people&rsqu...

15. Ratings Subscriptions
(Static Content)

...development consultants and gateways) Health (HIV/AIDS orphanages and antiretroviral treatment) Education (schools and skills training programs) Service offerings: Annual subscription per sector - Wes...