owards Informed Choice: School Ratings
This session will provide an overview of the school rating project undertaken by Gray Matters Capital along
with MCril to increase transparency and accountability. Availability of information is key to creating a
transparent and accountable education system. It is essential that stakeholders, especially parents are
armed with relevant information to make decisions about their children’s schooling, and that schools have
information about themselves in order to benchmark themselves against competitors. School rating
systems are important in creating competition amongst schools and address the information gap that
parents face.

Teacher Effort and Teacher Accountability in India
This session will examine the role of teacher effort and teacher accountability in delivering quality
education. In any school ecosystem teachers are the main agents of service delivery and therefore at the
core of any proposal to introduce accountability into the education system. Unless teachers are held
accountable for delivering high‐quality instruction, all efforts towards reforming the education ecosystem
will be futile. In India, this problem is particularly acute in government schools where there is an absence
of performance based compensation structures and accountability mechanisms.

School Accountability: Models and Practices
The objective of this sub‐session is to examine how accountability models can be built at the school‐level
to ensure efficient delivery of quality education. Such accountability models need to include not merely
physical infrastructure requirements but also financial accountability and low‐stakes testing to assess
children’s learning levels. The formation of School Management Committees (SMCs) as prescribed by the
RTE Act is a step in this direction but a lot still needs to be done in terms of capacity building in order to
make these SMCs effective.