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As schools re-open, address language & mathematics competences at different grades, adopting a socio-emotional development approach, suggests NCEE

-Press release by National Coalition on the Education Emergency dated 2nd November, 2021 * India’s 250 million children returning to school after 18 months of school closures and devastating learning loss * The NCEE warns that re-opening schools cannot be “return to school” as normal, and lack of a comprehensive approach will deepen the existing education inequality * Education recovery efforts require a multi-year, radically new approach, NCEE says NEW DELHI: The overwhelming majority...

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Notes from Jaipur on How School Closures Impacted Children from Marginalised Communities -Mohit Verma and Navya Poonia

-TheWire.in A survey carried out in Jaipur's Kathputli Nagar Basti and Hathroi areas has revealed that several children completely forgot what they had learnt before the lockdown was imposed due to COVID-19. India has experienced one of the longest school closures in the world, an average of 69 weeks across states, leaving millions of school children without any support. Since then, all discussions and debates around the opening of schools have remained...

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Every second surveyed Dalit and Adivasi student couldn’t access online classes: NCDHR report -Sarah Khan

-GaonConnection.com A survey-based study by the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)'s Dalit Adhikari Andolan found that 56% of the surveyed students from the marginalised communities in the annual income group of Rs 20,000-40,000 were unable to access online classes. Further, 73% respondents from particularly vulnerable tribal groups were unable to access online classes in the COVID pandemic. One out of every second Dalit and tribal student interviewed as part of...

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Supreme Court flags consequences of growing digital divide -Krishnadas Rajagopal

-The Hindu Bench says disparity exposed by online classes has been heart-rending The digital divide caused by online classes will defeat the fundamental right of every poor child to study in mainstream schools, the Supreme Court warned on Friday. The court rued how the right to education of little children now hinges on who can afford “gadgets” for online classes and who cannot. Little children whose parents are too poor to afford laptops, tablets...

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29 million students don’t have access to devices: Govt report -Fareeha Iftikhar

-Hindustan Times According to the data, as many as 29.6 million students from 19 states and five UTs were found to be without digital devices during the surveys conducted by these states and UTs. A report released by Union education ministry on Wednesday said that 29 million school students do not have access to digital devices as per data collected from 24 states and Union Territories (UTs) until June -- data that...

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