Every year, thousands of girls quietly withdraw from school in the months after they begin menstruating. The reasons are practical, social, and deeply preventable — if anyone is willing to talk about them. Dr Sunita Arora | Adolescent health physician and public health researcher This is one of the under-discussed but important challenges in Indian […]
In the relentless pressure to improve examination scores, physical education and free play are treated as luxuries. The science of child development says something entirely different. Dr Kavitha Subramaniam | Child development researcher specialising in physical activity and cognition This is one of the under-discussed but important challenges in Indian school education. Research and policy […]
An unknown but significant number of children in Indian classrooms cannot see the blackboard or hear the teacher clearly. They are not diagnosed. They adapt — by sitting quietly, by copying from classmates. Eventually, many stop coming. Dr Rajeev Pillai | Public health ophthalmologist with experience in school health programmes This is one of the […]
A child who arrives at school hungry does not have a behaviour problem or a motivation problem. She has a nutrition problem — and the evidence on what hunger does to the developing brain is as clear as any risk factor in education. Dr Anjali Menon | Paediatrician and school health researcher, based in Tamil […]
Official enrolment data is nearly universal. But enrolment and attendance are not the same thing, and attendance and learning are not the same thing. Finding the children who have truly fallen out requires looking in harder places. Sahitya Krishnaswamy | Education policy researcher with experience in community-based survey methods This is one of the under-discussed […]
India has a legal and policy framework for inclusive education that is among the most ambitious in the world. What happens to a child with a disability on a typical Monday morning is another story. Arjun Venkataraman | Special education consultant and inclusion researcher This is one of the under-discussed but important challenges in Indian […]
The school timetable is treated as a logistical document. It is also an expression of educational values — and in many Indian schools, the values expressed are not the ones anyone would consciously choose. A contributing voice from teacher education | Specialist in education equity, school improvement, and teacher professional development This essay addresses one […]
India has hundreds of home languages. Its schools teach in a fraction of them. The gap between what a child speaks at home and what the teacher speaks at school is one of education’s most underestimated harms. Prof. Suhasini Bhattacharya | Applied linguist and teacher educator, specialising in multilingual classrooms When a four-year-old from a […]
Millions of children follow their parents across state lines every year to brick kilns, sugar-cane fields, and construction sites. When they arrive, the school system has no record of them — and when they leave, it has no memory of them either. Dr Meenakshi Rajan | Researcher in child rights and mobile populations, based in […]
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