Category: What’s New

Dr. Banerji was conferred the Doctor of Letters, honoris causa (DLitt), by Krea University in recognition of her exceptional services to education and development.

Suman Bhattacharjea, Director (Research), ASER Centre co-wrote an article published on UNESCO ‘s World Education Blog. It stresses on the need for internationally comparable data on early-grade literacy and numeracy.

In a new blog, Rukmini Banerji and Mamta Murthi, Vice President, Human Development, World Bank, tell us how learning poverty can be tackled using scalable interventions and community-driven initiatives.

Bridging the divide between parental understandings of schooling and learning filled a missing link in children’s education and has paved the way for ongoing parental engagement in children’s education, which is overwhelmingly positive.

Dr Rukmini Banerji was invited to speak at TEDx IIM Ahmedabad. In her TED talk, she emphasises on the importance of foundational learning and implementation of NEP 2020.

In the two-part podcast series ‘Grassroots Nation’, Dr Madhav Chavan and Dr Rukmini Banerji talk about Pratham’s origin, its expansion and core values

The chapter outlines how Pratham went from designing methods to understand the learning crisis to developing solutions that were then used at scale across the country.

“The important point was to solve the problem. You don’t know where you’re going to end up, but you’ve got to make an entry.”

No longer can you see desks and benches in rows facing the blackboard. Now there are rooms with open space where teachers and children can organise themselves in whatever way they want.

Dr. Rukmini Banerji, CEO of Pratham Education Foundation, talks about how ASER has become more than just a data collection. It has become an experience that connects every Indian to their homeland.