{"id":54293,"date":"2020-01-15T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=54293"},"modified":"2020-02-26T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T11:00:53","slug":"7-pm-chalk-and-cheese-in-private-vs-government-schools15th-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-chalk-and-cheese-in-private-vs-government-schools15th-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"7 PM |Chalk, and cheese in private vs. government schools|15th January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Context:\n<\/strong>Findings\nof the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More\nin news:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pratham, a well-known Non-Profit\nOrganization has released the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2019.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\nis ASER?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ASER stands for Annual Status of\nEducation Report. <\/li><li>This is an annual survey that aims to\nprovide reliable annual estimates of children\u2019s schooling status and basic\nlearning levels for each state and rural district in India. <\/li><li>ASER has been conducted every year since\n2005 in almost all rural districts of India.<\/li><li>ASER is the largest citizen-led survey\nin India. It is also the only annual source of information on children\u2019s\nlearning outcomes available in India today.<\/li><li>Unlike most other large-scale learning\nassessments, ASER is a household-based rather than school-based survey. <\/li><li>This design enables all children to be\nincluded especially those who have never been to school or have dropped out, as\nwell as those who are in government schools, private schools, religious schools\nor anywhere else.<\/li><li>In 2019, ASER aims to shine the\nspotlight on the early years, reporting on the schooling status as well as on a\nrange of important developmental indicators for young children in the age group\n4 to 8 across 26 districts in the country.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ASER\n2019 \u2018Early Years\u2019:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ASER &#8216;Early Years&#8217; is a sample-based\nhousehold survey conducted by local volunteers in one rural district in almost\nevery state in India. <\/li><li>It collects information on pre-school\nand school status of children in the age group 4-8 years and their performance\non some important developmental indicators. <\/li><li>These indicators are divided into four\ndomains: cognitive development, early language, early numeracy, and social and\nemotional development. <\/li><li><strong>Objective:\n<\/strong>The\noverall objective of ASER &#8216;Early Years&#8217; is to highlight the kinds of abilities\nthat our young children need to build, to generate evidence on scale on the\nextent to which they are able to do so. To develop ways of discussing these\nissues with people across the country all of these in order to ultimately to\nenable evidence to be translated into action.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Need\nof ASER 2019 \u2018Early Years\u2019:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India is home to the Integrated Child\nDevelopment Services (ICDS) programme, which is among the largest and oldest\npublic sector initiatives for early childhood development in the world. <\/li><li>More recently, India has developed\nadditional important schemes, policies and frameworks, such as the National\nEarly Childhood Care and Education (NECCE) Policy (2013); the National Early\nChildhood Care and Education Curriculum Framework (2014); and the draft\nFramework for Implementation of Samagra Shiksha (Integrated Scheme for School\nEducation), which for the first time brings the pre-primary stage under the\nsame umbrella as all other levels of schooling. <\/li><li>Most recently, the draft National\nEducation Policy 2019 underlines the importance of early childhood education\nand prescribes guidelines for providing pre-primary education. However, the\nquality of provision of early childhood education services remains a concern,\nand little evidence is available on scale with respect to whether young\nchildren are being supported to acquire the foundational skills and abilities\nthat are key to subsequent success in school and beyond.<\/li><li>The draft National Education Policy 2019\nacknowledges, &#8220;A major part of this (learning) crisis appears to be\noccurring well before children even enter Grade 1. Far too many children are\nenrolling in Grade 1 before the age of 6, due to a lack of any suitable\npreprimary options (and limited ECCE); these are often the children that remain\nthe most behind in primary school and beyond.&#8221;<\/li><li>Worldwide research tells us that lack of\naccess to an appropriate environment and activities means that many children do\nnot have the skills and abilities expected when they enter school, and\ntherefore have difficulty coping with the school curriculum.<\/li><li>In order to ensure that the needs and\nabilities of young children move into the center of current debates on\neducational policy and practice in India, evidence needs to speak to and be\nunderstood by a much wider set of actors &#8211; parents and community members as\nwell as policy makers and early childhood development professionals. <\/li><li>The evidence generated by ASER 2019\n&#8216;Early Years&#8217; aims to broaden and contribute to ongoing discussions on\nproviding quality education in the early years to all our children.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Highlights\nof the report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The ASER 2019 has pointed at gross\nviolations of the Right to Education Act 2009 by many states, by allowing\nchildren entry into Class I, who are below the prescribed age, thus affecting\ntheir performance.&nbsp;<\/li><li>As per the report, as many as four out\nof every 10 children in Class 1 are younger than five or older than six. <\/li><li><strong>Numeracy:\n<\/strong>It\nreports that only 41.1 percent of students in Class 1 can recognize two-digit\nnumbers. However, learning outcomes specified by the government advisory body\non curriculum, the National Council for Educational Research and Training\n(NCERT) requires children to be able to recognize numbers up to 99 in Class 1\nitself.<\/li><li><strong>Choice\nof School: <\/strong><\/li><li>The\nASER 2019 report states that parents exhibit a unique bias when it comes to\nselection of schools for their children. <\/li><li>The\nreport shows that parents are more likely to opt for a private school when\nselecting a school for boys while government schools are primary choice of\nparents when it comes to girls\u2019 education. <\/li><li>For\nexample, among 4- and 5-yearold children, 56.8% girls and 50.4% boys are\nenrolled in government pre-schools or schools, while 43.2% girls and 49.6% boys\nare enrolled in private pre-schools or schools. <\/li><li>For\n6- to 8-year-olds, 61.1% of all girls versus 52.1% of all boys in this age\ngroup are going to a government institution.<\/li><li><strong>Private\nversus Government Schools:<\/strong><\/li><li>The\nreport finds that 21% children in grade one of government schools could read\nwords compared to 46.7% in private schools.<\/li><li>Although\nalmost half of four-year-olds (44.2 per cent) and more than a quarter of all\nfive-year-olds (26.3 per cent) are enrolled in&nbsp;anganwadis, these children\nhave far lower levels of cognitive skills and foundational ability than their\ncounterparts in private LKG and UKG classes.<\/li><li>Only\n14% children in anganwadis could recognize letters as compared to 52.9% in\nprivate pre-schools. Also, 12.9% of children in private pre-schools were already\nreading words compared to only 2.9% in anganwadis.<\/li><li><strong>Cognitive skills: <\/strong>The\nreport finds that only 23.8% children of grade one in government schools could\ndo all three tasks (Seriation, pattern recognition and puzzle) compared to\n43.1% in private schools.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key\nRecommendations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the\nfindings of the Annual State of Education Report 2019, Pratham has made some\ninteresting recommendations to improve the state of school-level education in\nthe country. The key recommendations are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Strengthening and expansion of the\nexisting network of Anganwadi Centres<\/li><li>Age of students play an important role\nin development of language, numeracy, social and emotional learning<\/li><li>Enrolling students in primary grades at\nright age important for overall development<\/li><li>Age group between 4 to 8 years seen as\ncontinuous progressive stages, so curriculum development should be done in\naccordance with it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion:\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India has huge\ninvestment in its early childhood programme, administered through 1.2 million\nanganwadis under the ICDS. The findings of ASER 2019 make it clear that there\nis need to strengthen these early childhood education centres so that they\nimplement appropriate \u201cschool-readiness\u201d activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/chalk-and-cheese-in-private-vs-government-schools\/article30569656.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/chalk-and-cheese-in-private-vs-government-schools\/article30569656.ece<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: Findings of the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2019. More in news: Pratham, a well-known Non-Profit Organization has released the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2019. What is ASER? ASER stands for Annual Status of Education Report. This is an annual survey that aims to provide reliable annual estimates of children\u2019s schooling&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-chalk-and-cheese-in-private-vs-government-schools15th-january-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7 PM |Chalk, and cheese in private vs. government schools|15th January 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,955],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-pm","category-7-pm-brief-infograph","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704849333},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54293","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}