In the 1998-99 school year has started in Kerala, India, state education officials were to begin to bring radical changes in the public schools. The new approach is designed to be child-friendly, and to de-emphasize rote learning and textbooks on the basis of teacher lectures in favor of "supervised learning and playful interaction" will, according to Education Minister K. Jayakumar, not less, "Adoption of the rights of the child." But, as an extension the so-called primary regional training program (DPEP) has started to get to all the school districts in the state of Kerala, the approach has been embroiled in controversy. leader of the political opposition have called for him to stop. newly organized protest groups, said that the reform threatened to dilute the standards of education and create two levels of students of Kerala. It will fall to Mr. Jayakumar and other government officials to convince the public that the plan DPEP was better for almost three million school-age children of Kerala. Their job requires officials to defend the concept of the program, even if they continue to control the details of his implementation. approach that they would choose to leave some believe that the DPEP was successfully secured in Kerala, while some of the strongest supporters of the reform believe that the DPEP has been deeply compromised. HKS Case Number 1573.0 "Hide
by Howard Husock, Mark Moore, Gary Orren 20 pages. Publication Date: August 1, 2000. Prod. #: HKS297-PDF-ENG
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