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Business News > Mint Authors > Anurag Behar

Anurag Behar

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ARTICLES BY ANURAG BEHAR

The continuous comprehensive evaluation system has been poorly executed from 2010 onwards because of interrelated issues: the capacity of teachers; the effort required to do exhaustive (almost daily) assessments for all children in every class; mechanistic guidelines from state departments, and more. (HT_PRINT)

To hold exams or not: It isn’t an easily answerable question

4 min read . 11 Apr 2024

While the number of elite schools and their resources have expanded, too many of these schools have shrunk.

A shrunken world of schools will impact India’s future leadership

4 min read . 28 Mar 2024

We are now in a situation where the average learning levels of children are lower than what they were before the pandemic.

We could make up for the covid disruption of schooling if we try

4 min read . 14 Mar 2024

Intellectual flakiness is less about ideology and more about not applying enough rigour to what they should be doing, why they are doing it, how it can be improved, and so on.

Fakeness and flakiness are not hard to spot in the social sector

4 min read . 29 Feb 2024

In our country, over the past few decades, we have equated medicalized healthcare with health.

Health: Band-aids will not heal a system that needs deep attention

4 min read . 31 Jan 2024

Many participants, from donors to CSOs, claim that they work for change in systems but such claims are not based on a realistic assessment of the small part of the vast system they actually contribute to.

We must bust myths around the social service sector

4 min read . 04 Jan 2024

Ziddi is my emblematic metaphor for everything that you need to fight the good fight, win or lose.

Insistence on empathy holds the key to a society bonded by trust

4 min read . 21 Dec 2023

Girls outpace boys in enrolment at nearly every level of education, but it doesn’t always translate to better opportunities.

Indian girls are challenging the rest of the world to keep pace

4 min read . 07 Dec 2023

All board exams will be offered at least twice a year, giving students the option to take an exam a second time and improve.

We need an education system that isn’t held hostage by exams

4 min read . 23 Nov 2023

In the Middle Stage of grades 6-8, exposure to a wide range of work will be given to all students through project-based study, building a foundation for a range of vocations.

Integrating vocational education in school education would serve India well

4 min read . 09 Nov 2023

Key classroom practices to foster a school culture, include seating arrangements; it could be gender mixed, or with no preference for academically sharp students.

Developing a school culture can do much to mould students well

3 min read . 25 Oct 2023

Values are most effectively learnt when experienced and observed by students in real life.

We must inculcate sound values for education to be meaningful

3 min read . 11 Oct 2023

NCF establishes all subjects as equally important, by giving adequate time to all subjects and having formalized assessments for all.

Subjects taught in school are set to emphasize rounded learning

4 min read . 28 Sep 2023

At the highest level, the Learning Standards articulate the aims of school education derived from the vision of our society as imagined in the Constitution of India.

Learning standards set specific aims for each aspect of schooling

3 min read . 13 Sep 2023

Currently, private schools can only be run as an educational charitable trust which means any profits the school makes have to be retained and cannot be taken out. In turn, the government often provides land at highly concessional rates to set up these schools. Photo: HT

The NCF will raise standards of school education in the country

4 min read . 31 Aug 2023

States need to have robust institutions for academic work in the school education system.

A few good actions may actually be enough to improve education

4 min read . 03 Aug 2023

Two kinds of knowledge are goals of education: ‘know-what’ and ‘know-how’.

Online education is inadequate for reasons we have long known

4 min read . 05 Jul 2023

Artificial intelligence could hurt education at its most basic level

3 min read . 22 Jun 2023

Three pitfalls that social sector workers need to guard against

4 min read . 28 May 2023

Keep up the spirit among those who work in India’s social sector

4 min read . 11 May 2023