Last week, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten testified before a House Oversight subcommittee investigating the government s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Incredibly, one of the nation s foremost opponents of reopening schools, heading an organization that did nothing but resist reopening schools, delivered testimony straight out of opposite world.
The Calcutta High Court recently directed the State to take necessary steps to sensitise the parents of those children, who have dropped out of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, regarding the need.
The latest Annual Status of Education Report said that as schools resumed operations after the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's five to 16-year-old students' fundamental reading and math skills dramatically declined.
Though urban private school students have made up for most of the learning loss during Covid-19 and are used to in-person school, government school students face more of a challenge. Our report from Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand
With about 30 per cent of students not returning to schools as classroom teaching resumed after a gap of two years due to the pandemic, the Odisha government has asked the district collectors to work for bringing them back.