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This article was originally published on the NITI Frontier Tech Respository. In 2024, Tonk District faced a persistent educational crisis. Despite nearly 90% of Class 10 students aspiring to pursue science-based careers, less than 12% eventually made it to science streams. The culprit was poor mathematics performance, driven by systemic challenges: vacant teacher posts, insufficient […]
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The first thing one notices at Azadwadi is not a classroom, but a garden. Bright vegetables sway in the breeze, peacocks strut through the courtyards, and bamboo structures stand tall like gentle guardians of learning. Children run freely, their laughter blending with the calls of cows and goats that wander the campus. It feels less
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Every morning in Gujarat, headteachers log into a dashboard that tells them exactly how their school is doing. On one screen, they can see which students are absent, which teachers need support, and where learning gaps are widening. The Vidya Samiksha Kendra, a state-wide digital command centre, analyses over 508 crore data points each year
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Today, AI technologies are becoming popular in most spheres of our lives. There is hardly a person who does not use AI helpers in their daily routine because these can ease their lives and make the results more effective and beneficial in most cases. From childhood, young learners use AI helpers to study, entertain, and
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The air in Malihabad, Uttar Pradesh, is fragrant with mango orchards. Inside a sunlit classroom at Vidyasthali School, a different kind of change is taking root. “Today we will study about menstruation,” announces Zarine Garcia, standing at the front of a Class 11 classroom. Her words land heavily. A hush follows, punctuated by nervous giggles
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Brooklyn Friends School addresses artificial intelligence as a tool for educational equity rather than a threat to traditional learning. Head of School Crissy Cáceres frames the technology debate within her institution’s broader commitment to providing resources that enhance student capabilities while maintaining values-based decision making. “Everything that is in service to the students in a
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“How much of what you studied in school do you put to use in life?” Hyderabad-based Vaishnavi Anantha asks me. She takes my silence as a cue to go on. “I would spend eight hours a day in school, but even then, it didn’t feel like I had learnt much.” On most days, the then
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“If these children start studying, then who will make the bricks? Do you expect our children to work at the kilns?” Jharkhand native Anshu Jaiswal couldn’t believe his ears. He’d just finished pitching his idea of the ‘Akshar Learning Centres’ — on-site education hubs in brick kilns of Bihar that would target children’s foundational literacy
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The interviews and reporting for this story were conducted in February 2025. A young boy in a remote village in Tamil Nadu carefully places a VR headset over his eyes. Instantly, his world transforms from a modest classroom with chalk-dusted blackboards to a futuristic landscape filled with coding simulations and immersive virtual experiences. This isn’t a
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The interviews and reporting for this story were conducted in February 2025. The recent results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025 Session 1 arrived at a serendipitous moment for Sai Manogna Guthikonda — as if the universe had carefully planned this victory as the perfect birthday gift! This year, more than 12 lakh
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