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&lt;br /&gt;
Pratham&#039;s Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) tells us every year that teaching-learning at our primary schools is quite a disappointment. This time, however, it is shocking. ASER 2012 reveals the &amp;lsquo;path breaking&amp;rsquo; Right to Education Act may have worked to further bring down learning levels by several notches.&lt;br /&gt;
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Aimed at ensuring free and compulsory education for all aged between 6 and 14, the RTE in its zeal to school seems to be floundering in the mission to educate. The Act is clearly helping improve school infrastructure &amp;mdash; an essential pre-requisite. But the RTE caveat of no detention up to the Class VIII &amp;mdash; a well-intentioned move to reduce classroom stress &amp;mdash; is now being blamed for declining learning levels and for promoting children to a higher grade although they are not ready for it.&lt;br /&gt;
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While the Union HRD Ministry still fights shy of acknowledging the problems with RTE, state governments have been quite alive to the issue.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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Pratham's Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) tells us every year that teaching-learning at our primary schools is quite a disappointment. This time, however, it is shocking. ASER 2012 reveals the &lsquo;path breaking&rsquo; Right to Education Act may have worked to further bring down learning levels by several notches.<br />
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Aimed at ensuring free and compulsory education for all aged between 6 and 14, the RTE in its zeal to school seems to be floundering in the mission to educate. The Act is clearly helping improve school infrastructure &mdash; an essential pre-requisite. But the RTE caveat of no detention up to the Class VIII &mdash; a well-intentioned move to reduce classroom stress &mdash; is now being blamed for declining learning levels and for promoting children to a higher grade although they are not ready for it.<br />
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While the Union HRD Ministry still fights shy of acknowledging the problems with RTE, state governments have been quite alive to the issue.<br />
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A wake-up call on RTE-Anubhuti Vishnoi

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