Over 40% of India’s primary schools are single-teacher schools. The multi-grade classroom is not an anomaly — it is a structural feature of rural primary education. It is also one of the least-prepared-for realities in teacher education. A contributing voice from educational research | Specialist in education equity, school improvement, and teacher professional development This […]
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 […]
Vishal Jain
