Banerji, Rukmini
(2013)
The birth of aser.
Learning Curve (20).
pp. 85-88.
Abstract
I remember a hot summer day, almost ten years
ago, in a village in Sultanpur district in Uttar
Pradesh. We were making a village report card. 2
Before starting work in a village we always did
this exercise. Our goal then, as it is even today,
was to work with people in the village to ensure
that “every child is in school and learning well”.
So we would go to every household in the village,
and ask every child if he or she went to school.
Ten years ago, even in UP, school enrollment
levels were high. In some villages, well over 90%
of children between the ages of six and fourteen
were enrolled in school. But for us, it was
important to go beyond schooling and try to get
a sense of what a child could do. We used very
basic benchmarks for learning - each and every
child of elementary school age in the village was
asked to read a set of common words and simple
paragraphs. In arithmetic, there were numbers
to be named and a set of simple arithmetic
operations to do.
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