Rainbow Primary School

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...

For some time, the Pratham team has worked to design potential ways to collaborate with the Rainbow School. In particular, we are interested in using technology to foster learning in after-school hours and school holidays. At this time, we are eager to move forward and we are looking for advice and support from throughout our community. Email me at leighanne (at) gmail.com with your thoughts.

Today we are visiting to check in with the Rainbow School, deliver school supplies, and (most of all!) design the next year for the school with the teachers and the PRATHAM team. I can't wait!