Pratham’s Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach was recently featured in The Economist. The article titled ‘Covid-19 creates a window for school reform in Africa‘ covers the TaRL programs being run in African nations to strengthen children’s learning levels.
Citing Botswana’s example, the article says, “They borrow from a technique pioneered over two decades by Pratham, a big Indian NGO that has helped left-behind learners in South Asia. Its model, known as Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL), uses speedy oral tests to sort children in their last years of primary school into groups that match their learning levels, rather than their age.”
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