The sixth event in the Envisioning India series, "Schooling in India's New Education Policy and Impact of COVID on Learning Outcomes" featured Rukmini Banerji and Karthik Muralidharan. The discussion was moderated by Professor James Foster, with an introduction by Dr. Ajay Chhibber.
Improving the quality of education is a critical investment for enabling “inclusive growth” in India. It matters both for growth at the aggregate level, and for enabling citizens to broadly participate in this growth process at the individual level. India’s National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is the first major overhaul of education policy in nearly 35 years. Karthik discussed the main learnings from two decades of research on school education in India and present key principles for the way ahead.
Rukmini provided her perspective on these issues based on her work on learning outcomes at Pratham since 2005 and will also present findings from the 2020 Annual Survey of Education Results (ASER) the first ever phone based ASER survey. Conducted in September 2020, the sixth month of national school closures, the survey explores provision of and access to distance education mechanisms, materials and activities for children in rural India, and the ways in which children and families are engaging with these remote learning alternatives from their homes.
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