In an interview with CSF, Richie Pandey (District Magistrate, Jehanabad, Bihar) shares key highlights of the FLN mission in the state, with a special emphasis on its implementation at the…
In July 2020, India’s National Education Policy (NEP) recognised Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) as an urgent and necessary pre-requisite to learning. The policy was revised after over three decades.…
Central Square Foundation and Centre for Social and Behaviour Change at Ashoka University collaborated to develop and empirically test behavior change interventions to increase parental engagement on FLN in two…
Research over the last three decades has established that greater parent involvement in a child's learning journey leads to improved school performance, higher academic achievement, and greater social and emotional development of the child. However, parents’ involvement in children’s learning tends to be low because they often lack clarity on the role they can play and feel underconfident in supporting their child, given their own low literacy levels. Central Square Foundation and Centre for Social and Behaviour Change at Ashoka University collaborated to develop and empirically test behavior change interventions to increase parental engagement on FLN. Read to learn more.
5 July 2023 marks two successful years of the NIPUN Bharat Mission in India. In an interview with CSF, Madhukar Banuri (Founder-Director, Leadership For Equity (LFE)) shares his thoughts on…
With over 1.5 million schools and 260 million students, India has one of the largest and most complex education systems in the world. However, schooling does not result in quality…
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 places the highest priority of the education system on achieving universal foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) in primary schools and beyond by 2026-27. It…
The new year has begun with a sense of cautious optimism with children gradually returning to classrooms, even those in primary grades. However, many of these children have not seen…