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ASER fine print: Figuring out the 14 to 18 year bunch
Civil Society News, New Delhi
THE problems with school education are there for all to see. Children get enrolled and teachers are better paid, but ...
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Books go far and wide the Moosa way in Arunachal
Civil Society News, New Delhi
LIBRARIES and bookshops are falling apart in big cities, but in Arunachal Pradesh a voluntary effort is spiritedly spreading the ...
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Off the street and into school
Rakesh Agrawal, Dehradun
After three days of intermittent rain, the sky began to clear and Meenakshi, Joginder, Rahul with his sister Kajal, and ...
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Girls learn, boys listen
Subir Roy, Kolkata
THE ladies who run the civil society organization, Sukriti, recently went to address the general assembly of the Krishnachandrapur High ...
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Field report: Children suffer learning loss
An extract from a field report by the Azim Premji University on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on school ...
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‘How can you run a school on TV and internet?’
Sidika Sehgal, New Delhi
The teacher isn’t in the classroom but a physics lesson on electricity is on in full swing. The difference between conductors ...
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Study abroad but stay at home for a while
Sidika Sehgal, New Delhi
Universities and schools were the first to shut down when the coronavirus began spreading rapidly across the world. Indian students ...
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Kids get to grow and sell veggies in Kerala schools
Shree Padre,, Thodupuzha
One day in the week, children in Thodupuzha taluk in Idukki district of Kerala carry two bags to school. One, ...
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Parents who play make better sense to children
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
More play time makes children smarter. That’s what a project by Sesame Workshop and Lego Foundation called Play Every Day, ...
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Enterprise syllabus livens up classrooms in Delhi
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
During a 40-minute class, girls in Class 10 at the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, a government school, listen intently to terminologies ...
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A farm college in Goa finally gets the success it deserves
Derek Almeida, Panaji
In 2012, when Mangurish Pai Raiker began the arduous process of setting up Goa’s first agriculture community college, no one ...
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Govt school teachers get tech savvy with a little help
Subir Roy, Kolkata
At a picturesque resort amidst a tea garden in Alipurduar district of West Bengal, 20 schoolteachers from remote government schools ...
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Teaching Dalits to ride for social horsepower
Civil Society News , Hyderabad
How do you get socially marginalised children to see themselves differently? One way is to put them on horses and ...
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SEED takes over, upgrades low-cost pvt schools
Civil Society News, Hyderabad
Private school education has been much in demand because most government schools don’t do a good job. Everyone can go ...
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AAP's volunteers figure out what's wrong at govt schools
Shayak Majumder, New Delhi
One of the signal achievements of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the short time that it has been in ...
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