Education

Development and Education

The Bastion Dialogues: Anil Pradhan

Anil Pradhan (AP) is the founder of the International Public School for Rural Innovation (IPSFRI), an initiative started in 2015 to educate Odisha’s under-privileged...

The Future of Angrezi Medium in Andhra Pradesh

Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, made headlines in November 2019, with a proposal to convert all government schools into English-medium...

Making Education Relevant Again

Authored by Purvi Asthana Grade 9 Topic: Precipitation Aim: To describe what precipitation is and the different forms in which it occurs “Does the aim matter to...

Why Your Teacher Needs To Be Trained Better

All over the world, governments invest in teachers’ professional development as a measure to improve student learning outcomes in a region. Elaborate studies have...

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...

How Well Can E-Learning Match Up To A Traditional Classroom?

Imagine learning a course from top teachers a continent away, from the comfort of sitting at your home.Today, the Internet has brought about a...

Education in Times of COVID: Re-centering Our Public Schools

Suspending all educational activities that involve large gatherings at least until May 3rd has brought about significant changes to schools’ academic cycles, board examination...

(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...

What Ed-Tech Looks Like in Rural Maharashtra’s Schools

In a small school in Nashik, Maharashtra, most of the students are drawn towards their coming annual day practice, running around for speakers and...

Education in Times of COVID: A Distressed Batch of 2020 Still Hopes to Study...

The COVID-19 pandemic is straining systems worldwide. Besides health, families are struggling with uncertainties surrounding their jobs and aspirations. At all levels of education,...