A Silent Revolution: Transforming Primary Education in Haryana
Critical to a good foundation for any child’s education is a grip on the language, which is the medium of instruction in school. Teaching to develop a strong foundation in…
Critical to a good foundation for any child’s education is a grip on the language, which is the medium of instruction in school. Teaching to develop a strong foundation in…
“Kids don’t know the words. But we catch them with the rhythm.” These words were spoken by Theodor Seuss Geisel, the man we know today as Dr. Seuss. And they…
In the first part of our interview with Luis Crouch, we asked him about how the critical skills of foundational literacy and numeracy can be defined and measured in a manner to…
Even as countries are starting to recognize the importance of foundational learning, implementing programs that are successful and scalable is another challenge. Having spent a better part of the last…
Do you know where Dantewada is? Chances are, if at all anyone has heard of Dantewada, it is in the context of left-wing extremism, Naxals, conflict and violence. As a…
Puja Bisht was in a rush. It was time for her to ferry her sons back home from school, just two blocks away. She locked up her one-room house in…
Most public education systems function through the “long route of accountability,” where teachers and education officials are not directly accountable to parents, who have limited “client power.” Private school markets,…
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) released the draft of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2019, formulated by a committee led by former ISRO chief K. Kasturirangan, on May…
Rukmini Banerji, CEO of Pratham Education Foundation, draws on her extensive experience in the field of early learning to look at how the draft National Education Policy (NEP) tackles the…
Good quality education is a key determinant of a country’s future economic growth and development. And a key determinant of good quality education is starting early so that the foundational…