The school enrolment in India is inching towards the target of universal coverage, but around half the children drop out of schools before completing grade five. Various studies have revealed that a large proportion of children in grades four and five can not read with comprehension even a simple paragraph in their first language, or…
Develop and implement institutional solutions to provide low cost but assured high quality basic education to children from poor urban and rural families, which do not deteriorate on large scale replication. Contribute to changes in policy and programs that institutionalize accountability to deliver quality education to target group children, at a socially affordable cost. What do we…
High School Program Gyan Shala noticed that most parents in the slums are extremely reluctant to send teen-aged and adolescent girls to distant schools at high school stage. Further, household demands to contribute to family’s economy makes it difficult for the adolescent boys also to find time for a full day high school. Gyan Shala…
Partnership to improve quality in Government Schools Taking note of GyanShala’s success in ensuring high lerning levels in its own managed classes, the government invited GS to start a pilot quality improvement program in a representative sample of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) Schools over 2007-11. A set of 23 schools were randomly chosen for implementing…
In 2002, Media Lab-Asia (ML-A) was launched in India as a partnership between the Government of India and MIT, USA. ML-A was set up to promote joint research programs in technology sectors between MIT and Indian entities. The Computer Aided Learning (CAL) Program of GS, to be co-designed and implemented through its sister trust, Development…
