Rukmini Banerji, CEO, Pratham Education Foundation The years 2020 to 2022 will be remembered for two reasons. One, due to the pandemic, schools remained shut across the country for almost…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a defining force of the present era, increasingly embedded within technologies that shape everyday life. Teachers are also increasingly using AI in the classrooms.…
India's EdTech ecosystem has come a long way. There is a growing number of organisations building solutions for education, governments are using technology for multiple purposes, and the evidence on…
India stands at a rare inflection point. To become a developed nation by 2047, we need sustained, broad-based economic growth and our strongest asset in achieving it is our demographic…
The five years of the NIPUN Bharat Mission across states have fundamentally reshaped how India approaches early learning with clear goals, well-designed teaching-learning material (TLM), meaningful investments in teacher capacity,…
Editor’s Note: This article is an edited excerpt from the special address delivered by Shri Sanjay Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education, Government of…
It is a Tuesday morning in September 2025 in a government primary school in Kaithal, Haryana. The class teacher of Grade 3 is present, but today she is not the…
Since July 2021, Haryana has been building one of India's most comprehensive state-level foundational learning ecosystems. What began as a commitment to the NIPUN Bharat Mission has evolved into a…
Improving learning outcomes in India at scale calls for deep collaboration across stakeholders and sectors. As Shri Sanjay Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education,…
Since September 2025, an experiment on measuring & disclosing school quality data has been underway in Jodhpur. A competency-based assessment was conducted across Grades 6 to 8 in 54 English-medium…
Drawing on a pilot conducted between October 2025 to January 2026 across 54 English medium Mahatma Gandhi Government Schools in the Jodhpur block of Rajasthan, this article examines how public…