NCEE, after their first consultation of the Coalition on 16th July 2021, setup its working strategy along with three working groups to take the work of the coalition forward. Education Support to Communities The Working group on “Education support to communities” is working on producing a compilation of NGO interventions…
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About the Coalition
The NCEE was constituted in July 2021 to address the critical state of school education and student learning, following 18 months of school closures across India due to the pandemic. The coalition issued calls to resume education by immediately opening schools and addressing the health, economic and socio-emotional well-being of…
The ‘operation successful, patient dead’ tragicomedy
NCEE co-founder Gurumurthy Kasinathan writes about how centralised examinations are anathema to the spirit and purpose of education. After a brief battle between Education department and schools association, the Karnataka High Court intervened and decided to move ahead with standardized examinations, even though academicians have continuously opposed common examinations, as…
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The National Coalition on the Education Emergency is a group of individuals, organisations and networks across the country which have come together to ‘resume and renew’ school education. The NCEE working groups produce research studies, curricular resources, guidelines for school opening to support governments, teachers, parents and communities to address…
STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON CHILDREN IN FOUR STATES IN INDIA
Read the report here Tata Trusts commissioned and supported a research study to assess and understand “Impact of Covid-19 on Children in 4 States – Jharkhand, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.” The study aimed at understand impact of the pandemic in multi-dimensional manner, going beyond only education or livelihood. The…
NCEE recommends that blanket school closures not be an immediate response to the air pollution crisis in Delhi.
The Delhi government had closed primary schools last week, based on a recommendation from the NCPCR, owing to the air pollution crisis in the city. As the air quality has improved, schools have been re-opened from today. While the concern about the health and well-being of children is valid, the…
Insights from a Study of Middle School Students’ Foundational Mathematics and Language Skills
Introduction 175 students from government higher primary schools in Bengaluru were engaged as part of a study to understand their learning needs in the context of schools being re-opened after the prolonged school closures during the pandemic. The study was conducted through a series of activities wherein students worked individually,…
COVID-19 Learning Loss and Recovery: Panel Data Evidence from India
AbstractWe use a near-representative household panel survey of ∼19,000 primary-school-aged children in rural Tamil Nadu to study the extent of ‘learning loss’ after COVID-19 school closures, the pace of recovery in the months after schools reopened, and the role of a flagship compensatory intervention introduced by the state government. Students…
NCEE supports Bihar Kalam Satyagraha
The Bihar Kalam Satyagraha is a movement that is seeking to bring together citizen awareness on the quality of education in the state. It has been established beyond doubt that poor quality of education further leads to unemployment, rise in crime and unrest, among other things. Bihar often features at…
Covid widens rich-poor gap in learning
The survey “Cries of Anguish” conducted by the National Coalition on the Education Emergency has attributed the development to online classes, parents guiding their children themselves, and the effect of private tuition