New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- One of the richest men on the planet has decreed that in a world drenched in artificial intelligence (AI), children need not learn math. Skip addition, subtraction, multiplicati... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- Imagine the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publishing a report tomorrow showing that the GDP of virtually every country on earth-rich and poor, ea... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- Since a Niti Aayog report surfaced in June 2026, a familiar refrain has returned to public debate: nearly a lakh government schools have shut down over the past decade-proof, say... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- A teacher sits after school with an open register. Its columns carry the names of her 30 students; its rows have indicators-participation in group activities, an ability to relat... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- In the past weeks, I have written about two school-education insights that ended up as orthodoxies-'constructivism' and the 'whole language' approach to reading and writing. Both ... Read More
New Delhi, July 22 -- I watched an eight-year-old boy 'read' a page of poetry from his Hindi textbook. He spoke fluently, eyes moving across the page, finger tracking the line. Taking the book from hi... Read More