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Play Is Not a Break from Learning: The Evidence for Structured Play and Physical Activity in Indian Schools

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 […]

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What the Eye Chart Misses: The Case for Better Vision and Hearing Screening in Indian Schools

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 […]

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The Disabled Child in the Mainstream Classroom: Inclusion on Paper, Isolation in Practice

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 […]

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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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What Happens to the Child Who Moves: Migrant Children and the Gaps Between School Systems

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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Play Is Not a Break from Learning: The Evidence for Structured Play and Physical Activity in Indian Schools

What the Eye Chart Misses: The Case for Better Vision and Hearing Screening in Indian Schools

The Disabled Child in the Mainstream Classroom: Inclusion on Paper, Isolation in Practice

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

What Happens to the Child Who Moves: Migrant Children and the Gaps Between School Systems

Wonderful Book on Dyslexia