-CaravanMagazine.in In January 2016, the non-governmental organisation, Pratham Education Foundation and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which is headquartered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launched a scale-up program in Anantapur, a district in Andhra Pradesh that has the lowest learning levels in the state. The test, which was organised in conjunction with the state government, was conducted between January and April. It aimed to assess the efficacy...
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Open Educational Resources is the Best Way for India to Have Inclusive Education -Madhu KS and Gagan Krishnadas
-TheWire.in The right to information and to education give the government the mandate to make policies that guarantee the delivery of educational resources to all. But the Copyright Act needs to be amended to strengthen fair use exceptions for educational purposes. Last August, the University of Maryland University College made an announcement that it had replaced its undergraduate Textbooks with open educational resources (OER), thereby becoming the first university in the world...
More »After Nehru, Rajasthan now axes RTI Act from textbook
-The Indian Express Organisation that played a big role in state to make RTI a national Act to write to Chief Minister on the issue Jaipur: After doing away with references to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and several other other freedom fighters from school History curriculum, the Rajasthan government’s revised syllabus has also removed a page highlighting the Right to Information (RTI) Act. A prominent section on page 105, which...
More »50 lakh school students in MP may not get books on time -Purvi Jain
-Hindustan Times Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Fifty lakh students across the state may not get their Textbooks on time as the Madhya Pradesh Text Book Corporation is yet to start publications for the current academic session. The corporation says the delay is because they have not got the syllabus from the Rajya Shiksha Kendra (RSK). In January, the Rajya Shiksha Kendra collaborated with the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) to provide...
More »Textbooks on phone: e-Balbharti app to make school bags lighter
-Hindustan Times Mumbai: In a step to reduce the weight of school bags, the Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research ( Balbharti), which creates Textbooks for schools that follow the state education board curriculum, is coming up with an application. The app will let students read Textbooks on their mobiles. But there is no word on semester-wise Textbooks and other initiatives promised by the government as part of...
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