The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey into How the World's Poorest People are Educating Themselves - Softcover

Looks at the growth of small private schools in India, Africa, and China and describes how parents, teachers, and entrepreneurs are building their own schools to provide quality education for impoverished children.

James Tooley is a professor of education policy at Newcastle University. There he is the director of the E. G. West Centre, which is dedicated to choice, competition, and entrepreneurship in education. An award-winning scholar featured in PBS and BBC documentaries, he has written several books, and his work has been covered in Newsweek, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. He was a professor in leading universities in England, Canada, and South Africa, and also lived in Hyderabad, India, where he worked with the entrepreneurs and teachers who inspired this book.