Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 1695,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;81% of class V kids in TN can&#039;t read English by M Ramya&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the &lt;a href=&quot;../articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot;&gt;Annual Status of Education Report for 2009&lt;/a&gt;, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &amp;ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &amp;quot;their reservations about its credibility&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &amp;quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&amp;rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&amp;rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 29 April, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/81-of-class-V-kids-in-TN-cant-read-English/articleshow/5870847.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 1773,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 1695,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 81% of class V kids in TN can&#039;t read English by M Ramya&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;

Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the Annual Status of Education...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot;&gt;Annual Status of Education Report for 2009&lt;/a&gt;, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &amp;ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &amp;quot;their reservations about its credibility&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &amp;quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&amp;rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&amp;rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 1695,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;81% of class V kids in TN can&#039;t read English by M Ramya&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the &lt;a href=&quot;../articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot;&gt;Annual Status of Education Report for 2009&lt;/a&gt;, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &amp;ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &amp;quot;their reservations about its credibility&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &amp;quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&amp;rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&amp;rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 29 April, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/81-of-class-V-kids-in-TN-cant-read-English/articleshow/5870847.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 1773,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 1695
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 81% of class V kids in TN can&#039;t read English by M Ramya&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;

Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the Annual Status of Education...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot;&gt;Annual Status of Education Report for 2009&lt;/a&gt;, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &amp;ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &amp;quot;their reservations about its credibility&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &amp;quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&amp;rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&amp;rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 81% of class V kids in TN can't read English by M Ramya | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="

Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the Annual Status of Education..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>81% of class V kids in TN can't read English by M Ramya</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p align="justify"><br /><font >Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the <a href="https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;pgno=2" title="https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;pgno=2">Annual Status of Education Report for 2009</a>, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&rdquo; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &quot;their reservations about its credibility&quot;. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&quot; </font></p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 1695,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;81% of class V kids in TN can&#039;t read English by M Ramya&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the &lt;a href=&quot;../articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot;&gt;Annual Status of Education Report for 2009&lt;/a&gt;, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &amp;ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &amp;quot;their reservations about its credibility&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &amp;quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&amp;rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&amp;rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 29 April, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/81-of-class-V-kids-in-TN-cant-read-English/articleshow/5870847.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 1773,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 1695,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 81% of class V kids in TN can&#039;t read English by M Ramya&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;

Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the Annual Status of Education...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot;&gt;Annual Status of Education Report for 2009&lt;/a&gt;, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &amp;ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &amp;quot;their reservations about its credibility&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &amp;quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&amp;rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&amp;rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 1695,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;81% of class V kids in TN can&#039;t read English by M Ramya&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the &lt;a href=&quot;../articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot;&gt;Annual Status of Education Report for 2009&lt;/a&gt;, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &amp;ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &amp;quot;their reservations about its credibility&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &amp;quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&amp;rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&amp;rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 29 April, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/81-of-class-V-kids-in-TN-cant-read-English/articleshow/5870847.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 1773,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 1695
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 81% of class V kids in TN can&#039;t read English by M Ramya&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;

Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the Annual Status of Education...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot;&gt;Annual Status of Education Report for 2009&lt;/a&gt;, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &amp;ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &amp;quot;their reservations about its credibility&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &amp;quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&amp;rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&amp;rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 81% of class V kids in TN can't read English by M Ramya | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="

Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the Annual Status of Education..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>81% of class V kids in TN can't read English by M Ramya</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p align="justify"><br /><font >Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the <a href="https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;pgno=2" title="https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;pgno=2">Annual Status of Education Report for 2009</a>, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&rdquo; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &quot;their reservations about its credibility&quot;. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&quot; </font></p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr68163e4c01ddd-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 1695,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;81% of class V kids in TN can&#039;t read English by M Ramya&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the &lt;a href=&quot;../articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot;&gt;Annual Status of Education Report for 2009&lt;/a&gt;, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &amp;ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &amp;quot;their reservations about its credibility&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &amp;quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&amp;rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&amp;rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 29 April, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/81-of-class-V-kids-in-TN-cant-read-English/articleshow/5870847.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 1773,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 1695,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 81% of class V kids in TN can&#039;t read English by M Ramya&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;

Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the Annual Status of Education...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot;&gt;Annual Status of Education Report for 2009&lt;/a&gt;, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &amp;ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &amp;quot;their reservations about its credibility&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &amp;quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&amp;rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&amp;rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 1695,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;81% of class V kids in TN can&#039;t read English by M Ramya&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the &lt;a href=&quot;../articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot;&gt;Annual Status of Education Report for 2009&lt;/a&gt;, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &amp;ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &amp;quot;their reservations about its credibility&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &amp;quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&amp;rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&amp;rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 29 April, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/81-of-class-V-kids-in-TN-cant-read-English/articleshow/5870847.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 1773,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 1695
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 81% of class V kids in TN can&#039;t read English by M Ramya&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;

Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the Annual Status of Education...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&amp;rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&amp;rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&amp;rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;amp;pgno=2&quot;&gt;Annual Status of Education Report for 2009&lt;/a&gt;, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &amp;ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&amp;rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &amp;quot;their reservations about its credibility&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &amp;quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&amp;rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&amp;rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 81% of class V kids in TN can't read English by M Ramya | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="

Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the Annual Status of Education..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>81% of class V kids in TN can't read English by M Ramya</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p align="justify"><br /><font >Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the <a href="https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;pgno=2" title="https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;pgno=2">Annual Status of Education Report for 2009</a>, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&rdquo; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &quot;their reservations about its credibility&quot;. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&quot; </font></p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 1695,
		'title' => '81% of class V kids in TN can't read English by M Ramya',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<p align="justify">
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the <a href="../articles.php?articleId=50&amp;pgno=2">Annual Status of Education Report for 2009</a>, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&rdquo; </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &quot;their reservations about its credibility&quot;. </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&quot; </font>
</p>
',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Times of India, 29 April, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/81-of-class-V-kids-in-TN-cant-read-English/articleshow/5870847.cms',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => '81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 1773,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 1695,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 81% of class V kids in TN can't read English by M Ramya',
	'metaKeywords' => 'Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education',
	'metaDesc' => '

Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the Annual Status of Education...',
	'disp' => '<p align="justify"><br /><font >Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the <a href="https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;pgno=2" title="https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;pgno=2">Annual Status of Education Report for 2009</a>, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&rdquo; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &quot;their reservations about its credibility&quot;. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&quot; </font></p>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 1695,
	'title' => '81% of class V kids in TN can't read English by M Ramya',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<p align="justify">
<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the <a href="../articles.php?articleId=50&amp;pgno=2">Annual Status of Education Report for 2009</a>, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&rdquo; </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &quot;their reservations about its credibility&quot;. </font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&quot; </font>
</p>
',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Times of India, 29 April, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/81-of-class-V-kids-in-TN-cant-read-English/articleshow/5870847.cms',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => '81-of-class-v-kids-in-tn-cant-read-english-by-m-ramya-1773',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 1773,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 1695
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 81% of class V kids in TN can't read English by M Ramya'
$metaKeywords = 'Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education,Right to Education'
$metaDesc = '

Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the Annual Status of Education...'
$disp = '<p align="justify"><br /><font >Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can&rsquo;t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don&rsquo;t know subtraction and nearly 81% can&rsquo;t read simple English sentences, the <a href="https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;pgno=2" title="https://im4change.in/articles.php?articleId=50&amp;pgno=2">Annual Status of Education Report for 2009</a>, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, &ldquo;While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?&rdquo; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn&rsquo;t believe the report and that they had &quot;their reservations about its credibility&quot;. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, &quot;The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don&rsquo;t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can&rsquo;t accept that we are the worst.&quot; </font></p>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

81% of class V kids in TN can't read English by M Ramya

Nearly 65% of class V students in rural areas of Tamil Nadu can’t read even a class II textbook in their mother tongue, 45% don’t know subtraction and nearly 81% can’t read simple English sentences, the Annual Status of Education Report for 2009, compiled by Delhi-based NGO Pratham Foundation, has revealed. The findings of the survey, which had a sample size of 33,000 students in both private and government schools, showed that while 19.4% of class V students could read words and 7.2% could only identify letters, 3.7% could read nothing. Only During the survey, the children were first asked to read a short story, failing which they were asked to read out a couple of lines. If a child was unable to read the words, he or she was then asked to identify the letters. Vasanthi Devi, convenor of the KALVI Alliance for Education and co-ordinator for the survey, said, “While the state has been able to do a good job in getting children into schools and in making efforts to introduce child-centric pedagogies like the activity-based learning methodology, it still has to look at the learning outcomes. What is the benchmark for a child to go to class V or even VIII?” The report, however, found that the state had a healthy enrolment ratio with just 1.4% out-of-school children in the 11-14 age group, lower than the national average of 6%. The percentage of out-of-school girls between 11 and 14 years at 1.1% was also lower than the national average of 6.8%. The report said that not even half the number of students in class VIII could read easy sentences in English. Also, a dismal 42.5% of class VIII students were able to do subtraction. On a positive note, the report praised the state for scoring over others in getting out-of-school children back to schools, in ensuring that 92.6% of kids below five years were enrolled in anganwadis and 97% of children in the 11-14 age group go to school. The survey was carried out in private and government schools in 870 villages in 29 TN districts. The data was collected by volunteers from 23 NGOs and a college. Senior officials of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan said they didn’t believe the report and that they had "their reservations about its credibility". Former SSA special project director MP Vijaykumar said, "The NCERT studies, which are more reliable and have a bigger sample size, gave us a thumbs up last year. The Pratham report is not foolproof. I don’t dispute the fact that TN may not be topping the list in reading and math, but I can’t accept that we are the worst."