The past year has been hard for both students and educators alike across government and private schools in India. WIth lack of access to tech and internet, inability to complete syllabus, blows to social learning, and many more challenges, students are faced with serious learning gaps. The need now is for remediation programmes to address loss of learning and to mitigate their effects over the trajectory of students’ education.

Story originally reported by Olina Banerji

https://the-ken.com/story/lessons-indias-lost-school-year/

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Anushka Chhikara

Olina Banerji

Guests

Natasha Joshi of Nilekani Philanthropies

Sumeet Mehta of LEAD School

Sridhar Rajagopalan of Educational Initiatives

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