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This is Sunitha with Pratham, a huge NGO here in India. She let me follow her team around on Monday. Here she is showing me the low-cost science kit for government schools, there are over a dozen experiments in there!

On Monday, we went out to a village where her team assessed the learning levels of children at the local primary school. Then they surveyed twenty households about their perceptions of the quality of education in the village. The team was very thorough and the data was assembled with great clarity.

The end result of this work is the ASER survey, the Annual Status of Education Report. You can see the 2006 survey here: http://www.pratham.org/aser2006.php

In the Ranga Reddy District, the Rainbow Schools home district, they are working in over 800 villages to assess the schools.

Post-survey, Pratham does work with volunteers, paid a little monthly stipend, to help children learn reading and writing after school hours. This is their famous "Read India" campaign. Here are some of the teaching materials.

Finally, Pratham is working in 164 schools in Hyderabad in a Pratham-SSA Partnership. (SSA is the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan program, the Central Government program for primary and secondary education.) Go Pratham!

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