Article 1:The Perverse Consequence of America’s $100,00 Visa Fees
The country that the most H-1B Visas are awarded to
India (70%)
This company used the most H-1B Visas last year
Amazon (14,000)
Position of "Supply Wallahs"
Schools should be improved (well trained teachers, better classrooms, etc.)
Position of "Demand Wallahs"
There is no point in supplying education unless there is a clear demand for it
A study found teachers of a ______ caste gave lower grades to low caste students when caste was visible (vs. when it was not)
lower
The type of firms that are using the H-1B Visas most often
Big Tech firms hiring foreign graduates
Indian Company that has received several Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Complaints alleging that the company fired them and replaced them with H-1B workers
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
This was depicted consistently in collages made by parents expressing expectations of education
Glamor/riches
Most parents surveyed in Madagascar imagined an ___-shaped curve for the graph of the benefits of schooling per additional year
S-Shaped
William Easterly falls on this side of the "Wallahs"
"Demand Wallahs"
Country that the second most Visas go to
China (12%)
In addition to the $100,000 change, this is the additional proposed change to the program
Reworking the lottery to give greater weighting to higher-paid applicants
Definition of voucher privatization
Government giving citizens "vouchers" to pay private school fees
The process some schools use that allows them to achieve a perfect pass record on the graduating exam
Expelling the bottom of the class every year
At the UNESCO Education for All Summit in 2000, education quality was ranked 6 out of ___ goals
6
Trump's reasoning behind the change
Year that the H-1B program was introduced
1990
One of the widespread outcomes of PROGRESA
CCTs spread all over the world and/or RCTs were used to evaluate them
The two basic tasks of education (that are often failed)
Giving everybody a basic set of skills, identifying talent
Why the negative view on technology in education may not be relevant to many countries
This idea comes from rich countries (where an alternative to technology is a well-trained teacher)
Amount of H-1B Visas issued per year by lottery
85,000
Year that the lottery system was introduced
2007
Key belief of Santiago Levy
Welfare payments should be linked to human capital (health and education)/education investment could ensure that money spent today would eradicate both short and long-term poverty
Name of the NGO that runs ASER, exposes the deficiencies of the education system, and aims to fix them
Pratham
A young woman from the community who worked with children on their specific area of weakness (in a Pratham project)
Balsakhi