Launched in April 2025, the Sishu Vatika initiative in Odisha’s government schools is becoming a game-changer in advancing the state’s Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) goals, under the NIPUN Bharat…
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…
Majority of the brain development happens before the age of six. Neuroscience indicates that early preventive intervention is more efficient and produces favourable outcomes than remediation later in life[1]. Development…
Nidhi Sharma, an Anganwadi worker with 17 years of experience, currently serves at the Kishanpur 4 Anganwadi centre in the Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh. In our conversation with Nidhi,…
Anustup NayakProject Director - Early Childhood Education, CSF Q1. What are some key elements of quality Early Childhood Education ( ECE) and what challenges is India facing in this space?…
Lata Menon (Child Development Expert, Ex-UNICEF) In this edition of The EDge, we interact with education expert Lata Menon to discuss the early childhood education landscape in India. We discuss…
India has nearly 80 million children in the age group of 3-6 years. Decades of multi-disciplinary research have firmly established the long-term positive effects of investing in high-quality ECE programmes…
In our conversation with Venita Kaul, Professor Emerita (Education), Ambedkar University, Delhi, we deliberate on her vast research experience in ECE, the current state of early-learning outcomes in India, and best practices that we can learn from. She reflects on the role of various key stakeholders, the need for convergence between both ministries, and suggests concrete actions across many levels to improve ECE in the country.
As schools begin a new academic year, they face the daunting challenge of addressing the learning crisis of the two-year-long pandemic, which comes on top of learning levels that have…
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…