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…
Mapping Out of School Children during COVID-19 in India
In this research, Nisha Vernekar, Aditya Narayan Rai and Karan Singhal of Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, have systematically compiled and analysed sources of information between April 2020 and May 2022. Three types of sources have been compiled and analysed – (i) nationally representative surveys (conducted by the State and…
Webinar on Exploring the Education Technology Landscape
Please fill up https://tinyurl.com/edtechwebinarfeedback to share your quick feedback The EdTech Landscape report is available here See YouTube live stream video here CESI Membership To become a member of a CESI RIG, one must become a LIFE MEMBER of CESI (this has a fee is 5000 Rs). Then one can…
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…
Cries of Anguish
The main finding of this study of households in Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu is the following: Poor parents are desperate about the education future of their children and fully conscious of the devastating toll that prolonged school closure has taken on the learning, socio-emotional development and behaviour of their…
The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Distress on Education: A View from the Margins
This study indicates to three critical points – (1) the educational situation is different for children who are marginalised – they face a historical and infrastructural deprivation along with a social one, (2) this influences both girls and boys, but girls bear a brunt only because they are girls –…
‘Public Expenditure on Children – An Analysis of Pre and Post Covid period across 14 Indian States’
This report by the Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS), Bangalore analyses public expenditure on children in the age-group of 0-18 yrs during the pre and post pandemic period. It argues for greater attention to their needs to build resilience and compensate for the losses they have suffered.