POCSO in Practice: What Schools Are Required to
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, places specific obligations on schools and their staff. Most teachers are
The Child Who Arrives at Class I Without
Children arrive at Class I with enormous differences in oral language development — and these differences predict reading and academic
What Playing Teaches: The Developmental Evidence for Unstructured
Unstructured free play is disappearing from the lives of young Indian children — replaced by tuition classes, screen time, and
The Third Language Trap: How Early Language Policy
Most Indian school children are required to learn three languages simultaneously by Class III or IV. The linguistic evidence on
The Long Shadow of the First Year: How
What happens to a child in the first year of formal schooling shapes how they relate to school, learning, and
The Anganwadi as Classroom: Early Learning Quality and
India’s network of Anganwadi Centres is remarkable in its scale. What happens inside them — the quality of interactions between
The Stories Schools Tell and Do Not Tell:
A curriculum is a story about whose knowledge, history, and culture matter. When large groups of children cannot find themselves
Why Schools Have Libraries and Why Many of
India has invested in school libraries for decades. Many of them are locked, unstocked, or stocked with books children cannot