-Livemint.com The proportion of school students in Grade 3 who are able to read a book meant for Grade 1 has improved only marginally from 40.2% in 2014 to 42.5% in 2016 New Delhi: The overall learning level in schools across rural India continues to be “pretty disappointing”, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) published on Wednesday. Nationally, the proportion of school students in Grade 3 who are able to...
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Teacher questions education status report
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Just before the release of the popular Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), a government teacher in the state has raised concerns over the methodology employed in its preparation. ASER is a popular report on the learning levels of children across states. The report is to be revealed in New Delhi on Wednesday. Ranjitsinh Disale, a ZP school teacher from Solapur, wrote to Pratham, the NGO which...
More »Niti Aayog calls for review of RTE Act -Yuthika Bhargava
-The Hindu The Niti Aayog has called for a review of the provisions of the Right To Education Act that stipulate that children who don’t perform well cannot be held back up to class VIII. It said the good intention behind the norm is detrimental to the learning process. It has also suggested a system where direct benefit transfers offer the poor a choice between subsidised purchases or equivalent cash to buy...
More »NCRB data: handle with care -KP Asha Mukundan
-The Hindu If the data on juvenile crime are anything to go by, the annual reports of the National Crime Records Bureau cannot be taken at face value. The National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) annual round-up of crime statistics has in recent years been the subject of extensive media coverage. The parsing of the official data, however, tends to be a superficial exercise, focussing on the big numbers instead of the minutiae. Numbers...
More »We haven't given primacy to primary education -Uddalok Bhattacharya
-Hindustan Times India will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its independence without all its children in school, according to a Unesco report. The Global Education Monitoring report of Unesco has said India can achieve universal primary education by 2050, universal lower secondary education by 2060 and universal upper secondary education by 2085. This is a sad commentary because at governmental level India has tried to universalise primary education though the funds...
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