According to the World Bank Official, India\u2019s learning poverty has shot up from 54% (before the pandemic) to 70% (after the pandemic).<\/span><\/p>\n According to the World Bank, <\/span>Learning Poverty <\/b>means being unable to read and understand a simple text by the age of 10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This indicator brings together schooling and learning indicators<\/b>. It begins with the share of children who haven\u2019t achieved minimum reading proficiency (as measured in schools) and is adjusted by the proportion of children who are out of school (and are assumed not able to read proficiently).<\/span><\/p>\n Significance:<\/b> The learning poverty indicator allows us to illustrate progress toward <\/span>SDG 4\u2019s <\/b>broader goal to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Open Schools and reach every child to ensure that all of them re-enrol.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Assess learning to know where kids are today.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Prioritize teaching the fundamentals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Increase catch-up learning. To achieve this, teachers will need to group students within the classroom not according to the grade or according to the age, but according to where they are.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Work on emotional support for both children and teachers.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Reduce the digital divide by investing in not the software or the hardware but the entire digital ecosystem.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cIndia\u2019s learning poverty has shot up, says World Bank official\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on 10th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? According to the World Bank Official, India\u2019s learning poverty has shot up from 54% (before the pandemic) to 70% (after the pandemic). What is Learning Poverty? According to the World Bank, Learning Poverty means being unable to read and understand a simple text by the age of 10.\u00a0 This indicator brings… Continue reading India\u2019s learning poverty has shot up, says World Bank official<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-178852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":38,"cached_at":1698384930,"cached_date":1698470295},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178852","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Learning Poverty?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What can India do now to reduce learning poverty?<\/b><\/h5>\n