Webinar: Where Are the Kids? (बच्चे कहां हैं?)

A survey was conducted in 40 primary and 41 upper-primary government schools across Araria and Katihar districts of Bihar, in early 2023 by Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan. Please join us for a Webinar discussion (link here) on the findings of the Report “Where Are the Kids?: The Curious Case of…

Press Conference – Gloom in the Classroom – Schooling crisis in Jharkhand and beyond

Survey of primary schools in 16 districts of Jharkhand conducted by the Gyan Vigyan Samiti Jharkhand and similar studies conducted by the National Coalition on the Education Emergency in other geographies will be shared. Meeting recording link available here Download the reports The Jharkhand schools study report can be accessed…

Landscape Report on Educational Technology in Schools

— Prof. Rajaram S. Sharma, Former Joint Director, CIET, NCERT, New Delhi The evolution of mass education has resulted in a school model which involves structuring and age-wise stratification, organisation of curricula, training of teachers in the techniques of instruction, classroom processes, enablers such as timetables or lesson plans and…

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,…

Digital Dollar? An exploratory study of the investments by IFC in the Indian educational technology sector

A review of the investee companies of International Finance Corporation reveals that there are serious gaps between the work of these companies, and the priorities of Indian education, with respect to questions of access, affordability and inclusion; adherence to labor, environment and child protection standards, and quality of services

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…