Rural School Information

144 are Primary/Upper Primary Schools and 89 are High Schools.
This program directly benefits 80,000 students and 1600 teachers, 2,00,000 village community members.
http://www.byrrajufoundation.org/primaryeducation.htm

Rural Karnataka might take credit for having 98 per cent children aged between 6-14 years in school, but 45 per cent of them can not solve simple numerical sums of subtraction or division, a recent study has revealed.

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jan202006/national1754222006119.asp

Unlocking the creative potential of rural India
Agastya foundation is working towards developing creative thinking and leadership qualities.
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr082004/edu12.asp

working with over 2000 Government Schools in 4 Indian states and have successfully implemented our K-12 program
http://www.niit.com/Schools/Schools_Index.asp?section=School&L1=Solutions&L2=Government%20Schools

Product Design

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Some material on the basic framework for the product
http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/sat/questions.html

Ok paydirt…refer to this logic model developed by kelloggs foundation http://www.wkkf.org
http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub3669.pdf

How about this? http://www.interconnection.org/icf/future.htm
Buy a computer with network and then give a catalog along with it
We can package it as 'donate-a-computer' program and tie up people for the project - and get not only old agers but all age group ppl to contribute

Online science course collections from http://www.monafoundation.org … interesting projects they run
http://www.monafoundation.org/science.htm

Corporate initiatives…intel/oracle
http://www.intel.com/cd/corporate/education/APAC/ENG/in/profdev/teach/teach1/239078.htm
http://www.think.com/en_in/

Others

Our course would have to be structured similarly
http://www.edwdebono.com/course/index.htm
Some stories based on bono's methods
http://www.edwdebono.com/cort/magichat.htm
Games for children
http://www.edwdebono.com/debono/gamesi.htm

This is a $100mil foundation and call themselves an innovative tool
http://www.trianglecf.org/static/ep.shtml the catalyst project link and grant seekers tab

Rural development frameworks…couldn’t get to read any of the framework though
http://www.aspencsg.org/rdp/resources/frameworks.php#tactics

A small note on bill gates foundation supporting rural schools
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/education/transforminghighschools/statestrategies/announcements/announce-042104.htm