Bullying in Indian Schools: What the Research Shows

Bullying in Indian schools is underreported, underdiscussed, and often addressed through the wrong interventions. The evidence on what actually reduces

The Child Who Will Not Come In: School

For some children, the anxiety of attending school is not a phase or a tactic. It is a clinical reality

The Multi-Grade Reality: Teaching Two or Three Classes

Over 40% of India’s primary schools are single-teacher schools. The multi-grade classroom is not an anomaly — it is a

The Question That Does Not Wait for an

In most Indian classrooms, teachers talk for the vast majority of the lesson and children talk very little. The evidence

The Lesson Plan That Never Gets Written: Why

Most teachers in India do not write lesson plans in any useful form. The evidence is clear that planned lessons

Teaching Reading, Not Teaching About Reading: Explicit Phonics

Millions of Indian children complete primary school without learning to read fluently. This is not because they lack intelligence. It

What the Back Row Is Telling You: Formative

The most useful information about whether children are learning is generated inside the classroom, every lesson — and most of

When the Cleaner Does Not Come: Sanitation, Hygiene,

A school with a toilet that nobody maintains teaches its students something very specific about what they are worth. The

The Adolescent Body No One Talks About: Puberty

Every year, thousands of girls quietly withdraw from school in the months after they begin menstruating. The reasons are practical,

Play Is Not a Break from Learning: The

In the relentless pressure to improve examination scores, physical education and free play are treated as luxuries. The science of