How we assess education matters
The competition aspect of educational assessment is meant for students to be ranked against their own prior achievement, not against their classmates.
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The competition aspect of educational assessment is meant for students to be ranked against their own prior achievement, not against their classmates.
Who are these experts that decide our curriculum and choose the content of our textbooks at school and college levels?
When a student is in a place of despair, on the brink of taking their own life, what does one do as a teacher?
Without much criticality or evidence, we often talk about eliminating certain school streams or combining non-mainstream routes with mainstream education.
While the Centre proposes that 'the medium of expression until at least grade five – but preferably till grade eight or beyond – shall be the student’s mother tongue, or the local or regional language', the state policy only wishes to introduce the three-language formula only at the upper primary level