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Yes, I think the RTE Forum is planning to meet this month or early
next month.<br>
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We should do our best to highlight the extra-ordinary callousness of
the system in denying children their fundamental right to
education.<br>
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In Karnataka, last year itself a PIL was put in the Karnataka High
Court which took the matter quite seriously (both RTE and right to
food/nutrition under MMS). The directives of the Court were
listened to by the Executive. (Niranjan would have details). If the
CJ is sensitive, this can be helpful.<br>
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The proposed meeting could discuss a PIL as an immediate action as
well. <br>
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regards,<br>
Guru<br>
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On 21/09/21 3:57 pm, Jean Dreze wrote:<br>
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<p>Dear Guru: The situation in Jharkhand is even worse than I
thought, as you can guess from this short note. Teachers are on
election duty and there is little chance of them being able to
spare much time for children in the next few months even if
primary/UP schools reopen. By that time children will be
catapulted <i>three </i>grades ahead of their pre-lockdown
class. As it is, some of them are saddled with textbooks in
English <i>and</i> Sanskrit even if they have forgotten the
Hindi alphabet! Sooner the Jharkhand meeting can happen the
better...</p>
<p>Cordially,<br>
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<p>Jean</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21-09-2021 15:32, Guru wrote:<br>
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Dear friends,
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Starting
from this issue, we will be providing a brief <i>fortnightly</i>
<i>internal update </i>to those who are participating in the
work/ meetings of the National Coalition on the Education
Emergency (<b>NCEE</b>). We feel this will be useful, as our
network has expanded, and many activities are being organized
in parallel. The newsletter, for a broader circulation, will
be issued monthly. The internal update will take only a few
minutes to read. Feel free to make suggestions and any help in
any area! Please visit the <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/"
moz-do-not-send="true">education emergency website </a>for
more information.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><u><b>1. </b></u><u><b>Social
Mobilization Group</b></u> (A big thank you for the many
people who helped with these activities)</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><u>Maharashtra</u>:
NCEE spoke at a meeting on Sept 18, organized by the <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/advocacy-campaigns/"
moz-do-not-send="true">RTE Forum, Maharashtra </a>and
other organizations, and discussed the education emergency
context and the work of the Coalition. The research brief
released by the NCEE was presented to an audience of
around 450 teachers, parents and RTE activists, in
Marathi.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><u>Jharkhand</u>:
A meeting was held with various local organizations. A
larger public meeting will be organized in early October.
Among other things, the findings of the SCHOOL survey and
<a
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kPMr8i-TcgAtX0pomctd-7017iJ16j3-/view?usp=sharing"
moz-do-not-send="true">ongoing work</a> of the NCEE will
be presented.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><u>Telengana</u>:
A meeting was held with local organizations and
representative of low-cost private schools. The
organizations will also explore doing the NCEE high
frequency rapid surveys. A larger public meeting is
planned before the end of September.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><br>
<u><b>2. </b><b>Education Support Group </b></u> </p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><span
style="font-weight: normal">The Education Support Group
ha</span><span style="font-weight: normal">d prepared a
template for documenting the work done by organizations
in ‘community learning centres’ during the pandemic. Six
organizations have <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/category/innovative-models/"
moz-do-not-send="true">shared their work </a>as per
this template. Their documents is being collated to
create a note on pedagogical innovations that would be
relevant to teachers in schools as well.</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; font-weight: normal;
line-height: 108%"> The Group is collating learning
resources and is in the process of sharing these in a
curated manner through a <a
href="https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Education_Innovation_Models"
moz-do-not-send="true">MediaWiki repository</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><u><b><br>
</b></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><u><b>3. </b><b>Education
Research Group</b></u></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">The
Research Group released a ‘<a
href="https://educationemergency.net/2021/09/coalition-releases-research-brief/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Research Brief</a>’, which is a
summary of Indian and International researches on Covid
and Education, over last 18 months, in English and Hindi.
The compendium consisting of brief summary of each
individual research is available <a
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1coEeu0lZRBsMEg366uIVxEYPS7Bc2ey_nO2uCIQwSyE/edit?usp=sharing"
moz-do-not-send="true">here</a>. Please use this for
your advocacy and mobilization purposes. </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">The
group will update the research compendium <u>every two
months</u>, with studies that are completed.<b> </b><span
style="font-weight: normal">Individual research studies
are continuously updated and can be accessed </span><a
href="https://educationemergency.net/category/resource/research-studies/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><b>here</b></a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><u>Rapid
survey of households on school re-opening experience</u>:
The questionnaire has been finalized. It has been
translated into Kannada and will be pre-tested along with
the software. The survey will be done in Karnataka and
Telangana. Other surveys are planned for teachers and
school heads.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><u>State
policy implementation tracker</u>. Data collection
formats were finalized. We are relying currently largely
on media reports. We hope to have a first visualization by
September 25. A method for submitting information through
a Google Form on the website is being devised.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><u>Guidelines
for state governments</u><b>. </b> This is under
preparation<b>.</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> </span><span
style="font-weight: normal">Guidelines issued by the
Government of India and few state governments is
available <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/?s=guidelines"
moz-do-not-send="true">here</a></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"
align="left"> <span style="font-weight: normal">Media
articles relating to Covid and Education is available <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/category/media-articles/"
moz-do-not-send="true">here</a>.</span><b> </b><span
style="font-weight: normal">Media articles, Research
Studies and other resources can be searched on the
education emergency site by geography (</span><a
href="https://educationemergency.net/?s=Karnataka"
moz-do-not-send="true">state</a><span
style="font-weight: normal">).</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Please share
this update with others who would be interested in
participating in the NCEE. Please email <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:info@educationemergency.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">info@educationemergency.net</a> if
you need any clarifications or would like to join any group.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">regards</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Guru</p>
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