{"id":117727,"date":"2021-07-10T18:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T13:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=117727"},"modified":"2021-07-10T18:50:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T13:20:49","slug":"falling-government-school-enrolment-is-alarming-and-it-needs-to-be-addressed-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/falling-government-school-enrolment-is-alarming-and-it-needs-to-be-addressed-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling government school enrolment is alarming and it needs to be addressed soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/falling-government-school-enrolment-is-alarming-and-it-needs-to-be-addressed-soon-7397329\/\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Articles highlight the need for reforms in India&#8217;s education system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: Need reforms on governance, performance management, and English instruction to strengthen public education in India.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Background<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The proportion of India\u2019s children attending a government school has now declined to 45 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Whereas this number is 85 percent in America, 90 percent in England, and 95 percent in Japan.<\/li>\n<li>This enrollment decline happened despite higher teacher salaries, teacher qualifications, and government spending.<\/li>\n<li>This needs to be addressed because a quality, free and regular school education represents our most potent infrastructure of opportunity, a fundamental duty of the state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Challenges and Issues<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li>There is an issue of a huge dropout ratio and poor learning outcomes. For instance, only 50 percent of Grade 5 children being able to read a grade 2 text.<\/li>\n<li>There are too many schools and 4 lakh schools have less than 50 students. Whereas China with a similar total student has only 30 percent of our school number.<\/li>\n<li>Only 26 per cent of kids studies in English. Though, English has remained a significant factor for higher education pathways and employability.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><strong>What needs to be done?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li>Performance management, currently equated with teacher attendance, needs evaluation of scores, skills, competence, and classroom management. Scores need continuous assessments or end-of-year exams.<\/li>\n<li>Teacher competence should be evaluated on child interaction, knowledge, planning capacity, communication, feedback abilities, and collaboration.<\/li>\n<li>Classroom management needs assessment by classroom observation of learning, physical set-up, instructional differentiation, and communication.<\/li>\n<li>Governance must shift from control of resources to learning outcomes. It includes learning design, responsiveness, teacher management, community relationships, integrity, fair decision-making, and financial sustainability.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from reading, writing, and arithmetic, our education system should stress the need for competency and English awareness.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, Education Policy is into Lists I (Centre), II (State), and III (concurrent jurisdiction). This fragmentation needs to be revisited because it tends to concentrate decisions that should be made locally.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Indian Express Relevance: Articles highlight the need for reforms in India&#8217;s education system. Synopsis: Need reforms on governance, performance management, and English instruction to strengthen public education in India. Background The proportion of India\u2019s children attending a government school has now declined to 45 percent. Whereas this number is 85 percent in America, 90&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/falling-government-school-enrolment-is-alarming-and-it-needs-to-be-addressed-soon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falling government school enrolment is alarming and it needs to be addressed soon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704809639},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}