Every year, thousands of girls quietly withdraw from school in the months after they begin menstruating. The reasons are practical, social, and deeply preventable — if anyone is willing to talk about them. Dr Sunita Arora | Adolescent health physician and public health researcher This is one of the under-discussed but important challenges in Indian […]
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 […]
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 […]
Vishal Jain
