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...
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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...
Improving children’s learning: Challenges and priorities for the new government
Over the last 15 years, continued effort to universalise access to elementary education in...
Time for a new focus on what works for education
We know how to expand enrolments, and politicians have been quick to do so in response to...
What the Annual Status Education Report tells us about learning inequalities in Pakistan
With the recent announcement of proposed post-2015 education targets, which place good quality...
The importance of making learning visible
Earlier this year, an independent team of experts detailed the “global learning crisis” in the...
ASER, UWEZO and Beekungo
ASER (The Annual Status of Education Report), UWEZO and Beekungo are household-based...
Colours of Bihar: Old and New
Crossing the Kosi Mahasetu is an experience. The highway leading to the newly constructed...
From Invisible to Visible: Being Able To “See” the Crisis in Learning
The group of mothers sitting in the sun in a village in north India was happy to chat. We...
Work In Progress: More on learning to improve learning
Last month, my colleague Dana Schmidt wrote a blog post about what the Hewlett Foundation and...
Annual Status of Education Report delivered a shock to the Indian education system
Every year since 2006, the findings of the Annual Status of Education Report have delivered a...