How Children Learn to Read
Reading is an essential part of life for most of us while growing up. It was almost second nature to me and something I took for granted until I began…
Can School Readiness Programs Work? Learnings from Karnataka and Gujarat
Extensive research in child development and neuroscience indicates that the first five years of life play a crucial role in a child’s lifelong development. Very specifically, before children enter formal…
Mind Your Language: Mother Tongue Education Gets a Boost
Children are showing a clear preference to study in their native language, a trend highlighted by the growing popularity of Khan Academy India’s bilingual and vernacular content. When it was…
An Effort in Designing a Solution for Foundational Learning
Contrary to what one might imagine, ensuring children are able to read with comprehension and carry out simple mathematics operations like subtraction or division is not an easy task. The…
Quality Education: What it Means and How it can be Delivered
Since 2010, at least 96% children between the ages of 6 and 14 have enrolled into schools in India and yet, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)…
Why Foundational Learning Matters
All parents want for their children to have a better life than what they themselves had. And for a majority in India, the pathway to that life is through education.…
The Need for Systems Thinking in Education Reform
Ask an education researcher what works to improve learning outcomes in developing countries and there is a good chance they might suggest hiring contract teachers. In three separate interventions tested…
“If children don’t learn foundational skills early, they never catch up…”
Achieving early learning objectives holds the key to India’s future – we try to understand the current constraints and potential solutions. According to the last census in 2011, there are…
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