In an interview with CSF, Shri Sajjan R, (Director of SCERT, Bihar), deliberates on how Bihar envisions the role of SCERT for assessments going forward, including the recently concluded baseline…
Foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) skills are the most important building blocks for a child to thrive in and navigate today’s world. The existence of alarming learning gaps, especially post-pandemic…
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
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…