Skip to main content

WWW.PRATHAM.ORG


http://prathamap.aissindia.com/

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!

Comments

Post a Comment

Leave a Message

Popular posts from this blog

MobilesForGood: EDU

Together with the students, parents, and teaching team, we did it. Ten years of the Rainbow Primary School. Our school is a government-funded, local-language (Telugu) school that serves 230 children every day absolutely free. We celebrated by opening  an after-school center last month with the best education NGO in the world, Pratham. For the past five years, I've worked on research projects and helped NGOs that have an interest in developing mobile tools for learning. Globally, there are three populations of students that need to close the education gap. 1. 52 million children globally not in school at all. Most are out of school for one or more of these reasons: conflict/no public services (fragile state), lack of legal papers, migrants, or they are female. Migration is a big issue in our area around the Rainbow School. 2. 200 million children globally are in school, but suffer from poor in-class teaching. These students cannot read at grade level. The most common reason
Post a Comment
Read more

Gray Matters Capital and the Rockdale Foundation

While all is very well at the Rainbow School, I'll pause to highlight a "sister organization" supporting budget private schools in India. Gray Matters Capital and the Rockdale Foundation have an annual symposium in Hyderabad, called "Enterprising Schools." Buddies of mine from here in Palo Alto, the Hewlett Foundation and IDEO, are heading out there next week. More info is on www.enterprisingschools.com My IDEO fellas organized a whole list of very low-cost teaching aide ideas to present at the symposium. Ideas like using old newpapers to teach literacy. They put the list up on the website under "STEAL THIS IDEA" - click here for the list! (in pdf form) BEST WISHES for a successful symposium, I miss you all in Hyderabad!
1 comment
Read more
On Monday, August 18, I was so happy to return to see the Rainbow School. The teachers have made a plan to shift from Telugu to English medium. My friend at Pratham, one of the largest education NGOs -- serving 5 million children in South Asia and Africa -- agreed to help my teachers. My co-partner, Kalpana, is taking the lead on a facilities upgrade. She will oversee an upgrade to the preschool and main building. Kalpana and I have found donors in India and the United States. The children were sharp, completely up on their marks. The teachers were creative, driven, relentless. More to come!
Post a Comment
Read more