Beyond Binaries: Developing Gender Inclusive Textbooks for Our Schools
Every now and then, educational posters of an 'Ideal Boy-Good Habits' or an 'Ideal Girl-Good Habits' designed for classrooms go viral on social media. While they may seem harmless at first, a deeper conversation is required on how our education system designs curriculum and learning tools. In this article, we explore how gender inclusive and sensitive our school textbooks are.
Episode 1: Education for All? Understanding the Needs of the Differently Abled
DISCLAIMER: In this video, we have used the words disabled and disability instead of differently-abled only because most of the legislations use them. We...
Breaking the Cycle: Why Investing in Primary Education Could Solve India’s Looming Job Crises
How can effective resource allocation towards primary education better learning outcomes and workforce readiness as a whole?
Using Data to Improve How Social-Emotional Learning Is Measured
As Sociol-Emotional Learning (SEL) programs move to the spotlight to combat the effects of the pandemic on children, there is growing interest and will among government stakeholders as well as teachers to bring SEL to classrooms in public schools. However, lack of data remains a challenge, which could easily translate insights for designing programs aimed at building SEL competencies among children.
Open Access Chronicles: The Costs of Academic Publishing (Chapter 3)
Hosted by Sourya Reddy
Edited by Nidhi Rejithlal
In Chapter 2 of the Open Access Chronicles, Dr. Peter Suber took us through the early days of...
Creating a Better Workplace for People Involved in Maharashtra’s Education Reforms
This article is the second in our two-part series on the middle managers who are responsible for implementing education reform policy in Maharashtra and...
Open Access Chronicles: Sci-Hub & Beyond (Chapter 7)
Hosted by Swagam Dasgupta
Edited by Malavika VN
In Chapter 6 of this series, Alexandra Elbakyan—founder of Sci-Hub—took us through what led her to create the...
A Roadmap to Safely Reopening Schools For Our Children
Instead of asking whether schools should reopen, examine the requirements to allow our children to be safely reintroduced to their classrooms and childhoods.
In Search of a Vaccine for Public Education: What’s With Consolidating Schools?
By Sourya Reddy
Headlines like these have been finding a place in newspapers for a little over a couple of years now. Of the sparse...
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...