focus on early learning, for every Indian child. [Ministry of Women and Child Development]. URL:[http://wcd.nic.in/]. [Send …

Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly low learning gains … instruction with no progress on basics. Shallow learning profiles are in part the result of curricular paces moving much faster … than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, a simple …

children between ages of 2 and 6 years. It paves the way for effective learning. The child is prepared in all respects to …

with the right government policies: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship …

the developing world, limiting development impact. Thus we should measure and promote learning not schooling. Conditional … test results, and teacher pay based on attendance and performance may help. But learning outcomes are primarily affected by … the broader environment in which students live, suggesting a learning agenda that stretches far beyond education …

Since 2005, every year the ASER report presents estimates of enrollment and basic reading and arithmetic learning … outcomes for every district in rural India. Every year the core set of questions regarding schooling status and basic learning … levels remains the same. However a set of new questions is added for exploring different dimensions of schooling and learning …