The Core Report #515 Two Hundred Million Children Lost Learning: How India is Fixing It
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted education for over two years, causing significant learning loss among millions of children across India. In this insightful interview, Govindraj Ethiraj speaks with Anurag Behar, CEO of Azim Premji Foundation, about the innovative and impactful strategies implemented to recover learning loss and rebuild foundational literacy and numeracy among students.
(00:00) Introduction
(03:00) Learning Loss during COVID
(05:14) How do you recover lost learning?
(07:00) Assessment Method/Tool
(10:51) Example of an Assessment Method
(12:50) Multiple levels of learning loss. Particularly in Primary grades.
(16:54) Operationalising the solution is difficult
(20:00) Issues in operationalisation
(24:55) Wide variation and relative loss from pre pandemic
(29:00) What can be replicated in solving the learning loss
(32:26) The Learning Crisis
(35:19) An inspiring story
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