How Can Citizens Decide Electoral Agendas?
How can citizens create political narratives and change the focus of elections to human development indicators like education, health or the environment?
Can the NEP Reform Higher Education in India?
Dear Reader,
In yesterday’s newsletter, we laid out the context behind some of the new National Education Policy’s (NEP) biggest and boldest moves in India’s...
Unveiling the Hijab Controversy with Warisha Farasat and Rajeev Bhargava
The Karnataka High Court’s interim ruling on 10th February 2022 banning all students “regardless of their religion or faith from wearing saffron shawls, scarfs,...
Helping Children Learn From Each Other: Enter, “Heutagogy”
How can we enable students to learn from each other while granting teachers autonomy in their classrooms? Heutagogy may be the answer to better foundational learning.
A Hurdle in the Shadows: Providing Education to the Children of Sex Workers
Written by Shagun Bhargava
As the per the last official count held in 2007, India was home to over 3 million sex workers, who continue...
Hitting Restart: Reopening Schools in Tamil Nadu with Merlia Shaukath
Hosted by Sourya Reddy
Edited by Malavika VN
Amid massive learning losses, states across India have been struggling to answer when and how they should reopen...
Education in Times of COVID-19: Strengthening Parental Engagement in Early Childhood Education
Akanksha Foundation's insights on the teachers in Maharashtra who received technological support—and those who didn't—may help reform ECE as schools reopen.
How Do States Suppress Academic Freedom? with Robert Quinn & Mirza S. Bég
Hosted by Sourya Reddy
Edited by Malavika VN
Across the world, governments often clamp down on academia and academic institutions. Sometimes in subtle ways, like restrictions...
Education in Times of COVID: Why Does It Take a National Lockdown to Revamp...
In light of the national lockdown imposed to combat COVID-19, the CBSE has released a series of measures to be taken by students, teachers,...
From Streets to Schools | The Bastion x Save the Children
“As the traffic light turns green, the car speeds off, leaving behind a little girl in a yellow dress selling storybooks on the street....
