A Low Benchmark: The State of Infrastructure in Our Schools
Written & Photographed by Apurva Sankar
Working as a Teach For India Fellow in a government school for the past 2 years has given me...
(Don’t) Get Smart: How Schools and Education Policies Are Failing The Growing Brain
This is the first instalment of a two-part series by Aparna Ramanujam on how incorporating findings from developmental neuroscience into Indian education policies can...
Change-makers in the Classroom: Centring Students in Educational Institutes
Written by Hafsa Maqbool Malik
The state of Telangana was created on the 2nd of June, 2014, making it the 29th state of the country....
Bride and Prejudice: Fighting against child marriage in Delhi’s schools
Authored by Ipsita Mishra
“I want to become an air hostess but I don’t know what will happen in the future. I don’t know if...
Trapped! How our education system makes and breaks learning traps
Authored by Upasna Sachdeva
In Part 1 of this series on Learning Traps, we introduced learning traps in the education system. A learning trap is...
Trapped! What’s Putting a Glass Ceiling on Students in India’s Classrooms?
"...the teacher still feels accountable for completing the prescribed syllabus (..) Children who fall behind stay behind as the rest of the class moves...
Equity or Error? Assessing Andhra Pradesh’s English-ization of School Education
Understanding the Context
English-medium education in India is becoming more lucrative by the day. This global lingua franca, which has found its way into most...
Bastion Shorts: 12,000 Schools May Shut Down as Telangana Govt. Plans to Amend the...
The Right to Education (RTE) Act makes it possible for children from all walks of life to be able to achieve education at an...
A ‘Next Generation’ Education for Delhi
Written by Ipsita Mishra
"Delhi will soon have its own education board, that will not be a replacement for CBSE, but a ‘next-generation board’ to...
Episode 2: Reforming India — Introducing Education Vouchers
Narrated by Sumit K. Yadav
Accessible education still remains one of India’s biggest challenges. Far too many students are not able to attain quality education,...
