Annual Status of Education
Report 2011
The Annual Status of Education Report 2011 released in New Delhi by Shri Kapil Sibal, Honourable Minister for Human Resource Development.
- Press Release
- Enrollment and Learning Report Card
- Right to Education Report Card
- ASER 2011 report
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WHO ARE WE?
Pratham is the largest non governmental
organisation working to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of India. Pratham was established in 1994 to provide education to the children in the slums of Mumbai city. Since then, the organization has grown both in scope and geographical coverage.
Today we reach out to millions of children living both in rural and urban areas through a range of interventions. The Pratham team comprises of educationists, development professionals, media personnel, corporates, workers, activists, PhDs, MBAs, CAs, civil servants, bankers, corporate professionals, consultants, who all bring their experiences and perspectives to the organsiation and are unified by the common vision of improving the future of our children.
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Pratham Fact Sheet 2011
ASER study by Pratham cited by the Ministry of Human Resource Development
Pratham, an NGO has carried out a survey in 5 States viz. Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Jharkhand and Rajasthan with support from UNICEF and UNESCO. The study has noted that in the last two decades, impressive strides have been made in India in terms of providing school buildings, classrooms, teachers, textbooks and other facilities. The.....
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Providing the Cutting Edge
Pratham and IBM come together to enhance learning levels through computer based tools and techniques
Mr. Sachin Pilot, Hon. Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India inaugurated Pratham – IBM KidSmart Early Learning Program at Ajmer on September 4, 2011. Pratham in partnership with IBM and Governmen.....
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Our very own Dome Lab
Pratham Science Team inaugurates a Geodesic Dome shaped science center in Ralegaon, Maharashtra
On September 8, 2011, Pratham Science program celebrated the International Literacy Day in a remarkable way. A “Geodesic Dome” structure (A geodesic dome is a near to sphere structure composed of a complex network of triangles. The tri.....
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Visit to the Bank
Citibank celebrated Global Community Day with Pratham
It was day out to the bank for Pratham children. On October 22, 2011, as a part of Citibank’s Global Community Day initiative, 24 children from various Pratham programs spent the day at Citibank Fort office. The children and employees sang “Hum honge kaamyaab” and we.....
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100 stories for children for
100 years of Bihar
Latest News
This year too the Economic Survey dedicates a full page to ASER with a summary of the key findings.
See latest Economic Survey 2011-12 under the Human Development section on Education - Page 322, Box No. 13.4
indiabudget.nic.in/es2011-12/echap-13.pdf
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News Updates
- THE PRACTITIONER - Let Demand Determine
- No real lessons learnt
- Unaddressed issues in education
- Significant decline in learning skills of students across rural Bengal
- Create education clusters to promote innovation & raise scholastic standards
- Needed urgently: An education revolution
- Unrealised goals
- Reforms in India have been disappointingly slow
- The crisis in learning
- State governments blamed for poor learning among children
- Rural children learning little in their schools
- Children in rural areas preferring pvt schools
- RTE fails to lift learning outcomes
- Reading, maths ability declining in kids: Survey
- Half of Class 5 kids can’t read Class 2 texts
- No lesson learnt, 50% Class 5 students can't read Class 2 books
- Crowd-Sourcing Development Innovation in India
- INLD Seeks CBI Probe in Education System in Haryana
- For Anil Kapoor, charity is more important
- A Day with Gunostav
- Govt ropes in independent evaluator for Gunotsav
- Government schools in state underperforming, says survey
- For every stylish toque it sells, new brand KOLS will give four storybooks to children's education programs in India
- Sharpen those skills every now and then
- A CALculated move ahead
- Making of a teacher
- Pratham’s Education for Education Program, by Rukmini Banerji
- Reforms 2020 - Last 20 years, Next 20 years, Future Reformers
- Lifting Children Out Of Poverty Without Winning a Game Show
- Hope Amidst Despair by Chetan Narain
- Today my son can be anything he wants to be...
- India's formal education system is failing, says economic advisor Raghuram Rajan
- Pratham Gala Raises $375K for Education
- Giving: The Pratham Gala
- Pratham USA Journey in 2010
- Pratham to Launch Back to School Initiative in India
- N. Vaghul | We really want to inculcate a culture of giving in this country
- The Pratham girl story
- Way to go…Bechan
- The Global Search for Education: More from India
- The SuperKidz did it again!
- Tata Power and Pratham – an Affirmative Action
- JPAL evaluation of Read India
- Govt plans to test 'no-fail' baseline
- Three Peaks are no problem for Saffron Walden schoolboy
- A HOME CALLED SCHOOL
- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflos' 'Poor Economics'
- Star TV comes to Pratham
- Event of the Month
- United we Stand!
- Read India: Helping Primary School Students in India Acquire Basic Reading and Math Skills
- In-depth Interview: Dr. Madhav Chavan
- Under a mango tree
- Effort To Win
- Pearl of Africa Inspired from the ASER model in India, UWEZO is now conducted in Kenya and Tanzania. Priyanka Chakravarty writes
- Pratham Gala Raises $700,000 to Benefit Literacy in India
- What Works in Education - Policy Research Colloquium Co-hosted by JPAL, World Bank and USAID
- Education in Africa: Where does the money go?
- A ‘CAMAL’ project in education
- Dr. Madhav Chavan and Pratham win the 2011 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
- PCVC completes ten years!
- Madarsa Chalein Hum
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