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published Published on Oct 30, 2020   modified Modified on Oct 30, 2020

-The Indian Express

ASER report flags burden of digital inequality on children, and opportunity for government schools.

The digital pivot in India’s schooling system risks pushing it into deeper inequality, seven months after schools shut down across the country to tackle the pandemic. A majority of children without access to internet has been thrown into distress — a handful to the point of self-harm, as several reports in this newspaper attest — by an exclusionary mode of learning. What reportage has indicated so far is confirmed by the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2020, a phone survey of 60,000-odd students across rural India. Only about one-third of the surveyed children had access to online learning; only 11 per cent had access to live online classes. That the burden of digital inequality has fallen on children shows up in the data. As many as 24.3 per cent of the children said they had not received any learning material from the school in the week the survey was held because they had no smartphone — almost 75 per cent of interaction with schools was over WhatsApp.

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The Indian Express, 30 October, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/aser-2019-report-education-policy-india-govt-schools-coronavirus-6909151/


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