: The lost generation: How unending school closures have crippled the education of India's children #IndiaNEWS As January 2022 rolled around, optimism about a new year and a fresh start fizzled out

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The lost generation: How unending school closures have crippled the education of India's children #IndiaNEWS
As January 2022 rolled around, optimism about a new year and a fresh start fizzled out quickly. Most of India was swiftly engulfed by a third Covid wave. What followed was predictable. Across the country, state government after state government decided to close schools yet again. According to data from UNESCO, India holds the unfortunate global distinction of the longest pandemic-induced school closure.Pratham, one of India’s largest non-governmental organisations focused on education, has been measuring learning outcomes for children in every state and rural district of India. The findings are made public through its Annual Status of Education Report. In its 2021 School Survey Major Findings report the ASER found that close to three quarters of all respondent teachers reported facing challenges in teaching their grade currently. The most commonly reported challenge was that children were unable to catch up with their grade-level curriculum – a number which went up to a staggering 65.4%. In rural Karnataka for instance, the share of grade three students in government schools able to perform simple subtraction fell from 24% in 2018 to just 16% in 2020.A learning crisisIn the face of multiple school shutdowns through a two-year period, are state governments or the Union government unaware of this learning crisis?...Read more

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