The Beautiful Tree by James Tooley
A Personal Journey Into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themselves
A researched account that documents how low-cost private schools in slums and rural areas of developing countries meet poor parents’ demand for quality education, drawing on extensive fieldwork and case studies across India, Africa and China to show entrepreneurial educators, competitive pressures, and learning outcomes that often outperform state schools; it challenges assumptions about public provision and foreign aid, highlights parents’ choices and students’ achievements, and argues for policies that recognize and support these grassroots providers through deregulation, accountability measures, and targeted funding to expand access and improve quality.
- Published
- 2009
- Nationality
- British
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- Original Language
- English
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