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Last year's Economic Survey pointed retired that the spread betwixt people standards and learning levels has widened since the pandemic
Editorial
Jan 29, 2025 07:20 IST First published on: Jan 29, 2025 astatine 07:20 IST
During the Covid-19 pandemic, India had 1 of the longest schoolhouse closures successful the world. Digital learning locked immense numbers of underprivileged schoolchildren retired of the schoolroom and online classes struggled to regenerate the acquisition and prime of teaching successful a carnal classroom. Last year’s Economic Survey pointed retired that the spread betwixt people standards and learning levels has widened since the pandemic. It noted that “improving learning outcomes and undoing the Covid-induced learning nonaccomplishment is much urgent than ever”. The survey, however, struck a enactment of optimism: “The acquisition assemblage is bustling with the across-the-board translation led by the NEP 2020, which is expected to output foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) skills for each kid passing the 3rd modular successful the adjacent future.”
The latest ASER report, released connected Tuesday, shows that this optimism was not misplaced. It shows that classrooms person not lone recovered from the disruption caused by the nationalist wellness emergency, successful respective respects, the foundational skills of superior and secondary-level schoolhouse children contiguous is overmuch amended than adjacent that of their counterparts successful the twelvemonth conscionable earlier the pandemic.
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What is adjacent much heartening is that authorities schools are astatine the forefront of this recovery. A ample chunk of the credit, arsenic the ASER study points out, should spell to the New Education Policy’s thrust connected improving foundational learning skills. It notes that though states person adapted the NEP’s prescriptions successful antithetic ways, each of them person adopted the policy’s teacher-centric approach. The large-scale rollout of teacher grooming programmes connected foundational skills shows a nationalist committedness towards addressing a longstanding deficit. The grooming is dilatory leaving a people connected the ways teachers subordinate to students successful classrooms.
The ASER surveyors recovered that galore teachers are present empathetic to the circumstantial needs of students successful the aboriginal years of school. However, arsenic ASER 2024 indicates, educating educators is inactive a enactment successful progress. There cannot beryllium a fixed pedagogical template to thatch children successful each schools adjacent if they are successful the aforesaid people — a information underlined by the NEP arsenic well. Today, teachers look to person constricted opportunities to code classroom-specific challenges. The ASER report, therefore, underlines the value of post-training enactment to teachers. Crucially, decisions connected what and however to thatch are inactive based chiefly connected syllabus completion.
“Resolving the inherent contradiction betwixt ensuring cosmopolitan FLN and syllabus completion is simply a question that the strategy has yet to reckon with successful a systematic way,” the ASER study points out.
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Today, much than 100 cardinal children are successful the foundational learning stage. When these youngsters postgraduate from school, the state would beryllium astatine a captious signifier successful releasing its demographic dividend — that model would past beryllium unfastened for astatine astir different decennary and a half. Therefore, portion policymakers tin justifiably beryllium upbeat astir the bully quality from the ASER survey, they would beryllium mistaken successful not speechmaking the study successful its entirety. They indispensable springiness peculiar attraction to the passages that underline the tasks ahead. The future’s astatine stake.
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