Right To Education
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Failing students in Class 5 and Class 8: Who said what in front of parliamentary committee
In a report submitted on February 9, the committee endorsed a Bill that seeks to amend the Right to Education Act to scrap the no-detention policy.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
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Told to stop meddling in primary education, CBSE withdraws its unpopular evaluation policy
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights told the board its policy for Classes 6 to 8 violated the Right to Education Act.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
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Criticism of no-fail policy in schools has little empirical evidence, says IIM study
An analysis of 10-years-worth of learning survey data shows that the automatic promotion of children between Classes 1 and 8 did not harm learning.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
Trending
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‘Delhi is our capital too’: A blow-by-blow account of the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day
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‘Please don’t follow me now’: Actor Rhea Chakraborty asks paparazzi when spotted in Mumbai
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Canada MP removed from ruling Liberal Party caucus for calling colleagues ‘Khalistani extremists’
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Why Malayalam breakout film ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ is ‘the story of most Indian women’
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Andhra couple allegedly murder two daughters in suspected occult ritual, arrested
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Failing children: Why is India ending a radical school reform within years of introducing it?
No-detention policy becomes casualty of CBSE's poorly designed school evaluation scheme.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
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Lok Sabha passes Bill to allow unqualified teachers under RTE Act to get degrees by 2019
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said unqualified teachers had been recruited when the Act was passed in 2010, as qualified ones were not available.
Scroll Staff
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Why aren't students of Delhi's government schools getting their textbooks on time?
Textbooks sometimes reach students towards the end of the academic year and also have printing errors and poor paper quality.
Ravi Prakash
Video
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Watch: Large crowd joins Republic Day protest against farm laws in Bengaluru
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‘Strong shouldn’t bully the weak’: Chinese president Xi Jinping at virtual Davos summit
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Republic Day: Animal Planet’s version of ‘Saare Jahaan Se Accha’ is sung with sounds of wildlife
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Protesting farmers gather at Delhi’s Red Fort. Watch scenes from Republic Day tractor rally
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Watch: ITBP soldiers celebrate Republic Day in freezing temperatures of Ladakh
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India is set to introduce standard learning outcomes for schools, but this may hit quality
Experts say such benchmarks, which are to be made rules under right to education, will lead to a testing regime.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
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Chhattisgarh is closing down schools in areas where it should expand them
Nearly 3,000 schools are being closed down in the state. A quarter of the schools lie in conflict-affected Bastar.
Malini Subramaniam
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282 million illiterate Indians: Education waits for the Big Bang
Even after six decades of independence, literacy continues to be a huge challenge for the country.
Saumya Tewari, IndiaSpend.com
The Reel
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‘Love Scandal & Doctors’ trailer: In AltBalaji web series, drugs, crime and murder at a hospital
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‘Aelay’ trailer: Tamil drama about an ice candy seller stars Samuthirakani, Manikandan
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Republic Day: Reading between the lyrics of five patriotic Hindi film songs
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Watch: ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ set for March 26 release
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Book excerpt: When NT Rama Rao became the first Indian chief minister to act in a movie
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In South Africa, university is open to rich and poor – but what about the missing middle?
University administrators are also grappling with tough decisions on how to fund the education of brilliant students who need financial help.
Sizwe Mabizela, The Conversation
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Goan school says children are not HIV-positive, but parents continue to demand exclusion
This is the fourth school this academic year where the children have faced resistance from parents.
Mayabhushan Nagvenkar