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Teaching Reading, Not Teaching About Reading: Explicit Phonics and the Foundational Literacy Crisis

Millions of Indian children complete primary school without learning to read fluently. This is not because they lack intelligence. It is because the teaching of reading has been treated as something that happens naturally rather than something that must be explicitly taught. A contributing voice from policy analysis  |  Specialist in education equity, school improvement, […]

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When the Mother Tongue Is Not the Medium: Language Transitions and the Loss of a Child’s First Voice

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 […]

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