Learning Poverty: A New Kind of Poverty Facing India’s Children
Imagine this. A young child studying in a primary school in a remote location in India, getting access to good quality education and learning all important skills that can change…
“SEQI is a forward-looking instrument”: NITI Aayog’s Alok Kumar explains how the new index can help states improve education
n order to facilitate the provision of quality education in India, NITI Aayog launched the School Education Quality Index (SEQI) last month, which evaluates the performance of states and union…
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…
Changing the Game: Using Technology for Foundational Learning
“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 order to progress, systems have to care about the learning levels of all children”: Luis Crouch(Part 2)
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…
For the classrooms, we need “little EGRAs” that can be used as a mastery checklist: Luis Crouch (Part 1)
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…
How EdTech is Transforming Education in Remote Dantewada
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…
Can mothers help reverse India’s spiralling learning crisis?
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…
Reliable Assessment for Bottom-up Accountability in Andhra Pradesh
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,…
CSF Response to the Draft NEP
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…