The Covid-19 pandemic witnessed significant growth in technology-based learning, as brick and mortar classrooms shuttered and governments, schools and students adopted EdTech solutions instead. Even with physical classes gradually resuming,…
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 lays down an important goal: improve learning outcomes; shift from rote-based learning to conceptual understanding and application of knowledge. It advocates for competency-based assessments…
The latest National Achievement Survey (NAS), a large-scale assessment survey of student learning levels, was held on 12 November, 2021. Led by the National Council of Educational Research and Training…
The majority of children from low-income communities in India are far behind grade-level competencies, especially those in their foundational years. As per the ASER 2019 report, 43% of children in…
The pandemic-induced school closures disrupted teaching-learning for 250 million school-going children in India. Consequently, the entire education system started developing home-based learning programs that met India's contextual needs. Teachers and…
India has the largest school education system in the world with 25 crore children enrolled in 15 lakh schools. We have achieved near universal enrollment of children at the primary…
Education and health are central to developing human capital and driving economic growth. Since independence, the Indian government has invested in building public health facilities (more than 200,000) and public…
Re-visiting the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of educating children during and after the pandemic Children in our country are not learning. The National Education Policy 2020 states that even before the…
Schools have gradually started reopening for in-person teaching in some states after being forced to shut for around 17 months since March, 2020. During this period, children’s learning along with…
The impact of pandemic-induced school closures in India since March 2020 has had an unprecedented impact on the school-going children, especially students from low-income households enrolled in non-elite private schools…