Friday Note: A test of the commitment to access plus learning
The bell has rung. Civil society leaders from India, Pakistan, Senegal, Mali, Nigeria,...
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Bitten off more than we could chew?
It is the tenth year of ASER – where did the time go? As usual, we’ve all been in the...
New learning data from Pakistan shows stark difference between rich and poor
In the aftermath of the tragic attack on a school in Peshawar, killing over one hundred...
A Universal Challenge: Education is the Foundation for Peaceful Societies
Education has been recognized as a fundamental human right for more than half a century now....
Photo Essay: Eight Years of Quality Education in Developing Countries
The Quality Education in Developing Countries initiative (“QEDC”) has been an eight-year...
The Map of India
Think of the map of India. Think of how it normally looks – dots for towns, bigger circles for...
From Bhopal to Aurangabad
The first ASER National Workshop was held in Bhopal in October of 2005. It doesn’t seem...
From Schooling to Learning in India: How Can We Take Everyone Along?
In a crowded room, deep in rural Bihar in eastern India, a heated discussion was going on....
In Celebration of Scale
Ten years ago, Pratham developed a revolutionary approach to assessing children’s reading and...
The Challenges of Implementing Assessment to Improve Learning – the Latest Report from the Learning Metrics Task Force
As is common on hot summer afternoons in villages in India, a man lay resting on a string cot...
School’s out for Summer: What have kids learnt?
Three years ago I was in rural India directly participating in one of these surveys in the...
Atul and I
I am in Class X’, says a diminutive Atul who looked no more than 10 years of age. Resting his...