Back to Base: Insights and Learnings from the FLN Baseline Study in Bihar
Schools have reopened, children are back in schools and there is a growing sense of optimism around. This, however, does not mean that we go back to business as usual.…
Let’s ‘Start at the Very Beginning’: Rukmini Banerji on the Need to Focus on FLN in 2022-23
The last two years of school education have been punctuated by repeated school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Consequences range from rising inequality in accessing education, to learning loss,…
Understanding and Solving India’s Foundational Learning Crisis
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…
Ensuring ‘Mission Aadhar’ Equips Children in Bihar with FLN Skills
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Education launched the National Initiative for Proficiency in reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN) Bharat. A national mission, NIPUN Bharat aims to achieve universal…
How to Achieve Universal Acquisition of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy by 2026-27 as Envisioned by NIPUN Bharat
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Education launched the National Initiative for Proficiency in reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN) Bharat. A national mission, NIPUN Bharat aims to achieve universal…
‘Uttar Pradesh, Prerak Pradesh’: The Use of Teacher Learning Material to achieve Foundational Literacy and Numeracy
Uttar Pradesh, under its Mission Prerna program is working towards improving the quality of education in its 1.5 lakh primary schools. The state aims to achieve universal Foundational Literacy and…
Demystifying the Science of Teaching: A ‘Structured Pedagogy’ Approach to Improving Foundational Learning
Teachers play the most critical role in helping children learn meaningfully. Decades of research[1] has found that an effective teacher can boost children’s learning by 1.5 grade level equivalents, while a…
Fluency and its Role in Foundational Literacy
The recent announcement by the Prime Minister that children should be able to read 30-35 correct words per minute by grade 3 has necessitated a closer look at fluency, its…
We must ensure that efforts to eliminate FLN crisis are not hollow: Dr Kasturirangan and Prof Behar
Dr K Kasturirangan, the Chairperson of the National Education Policy Committee, and Prof Anurag Behar, the CEO of Azim Premji Foundation, talk about the highlights of the recently released National…
Reorienting Education to Mitigate Learning Loss Due to COVID-19 Crisis
School disruptions in the last few months owing to COVID-19 is suspected to have aggravated the learning crisis in India. After having achieved near universal student enrollment in primary schools,…