Other states should take a lesson from the efficiency of this policy and the Chhattisgarh model, writes Saurabh Raj, Student, Azim Premji University, in The Times of India.

Good education requires not dichotomies, but a consistent endeavour to balance and achieve complementary ends, both in theory and in practice, writes Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint.

Santosh Kumar, in the i wonder magazine, records the voices of some urban and rural students in informal discussions about soil. He highlights the experiences that shape their understanding of soil and what they would like to learn about it.

Ashutosh Tosaria, member, Azim Premji Foundation, in Deccan Herald, compares the 10-minute delivery of products in cities and the breakdown of sanitary pad distribution to government schools and anganwadi centres during the COVID-19 pandemic, to highlight how disjoined our lives are.

Randy Olson, in the i wonder magazine, illustrates how one can get started with a story using the universal narrative template called ABT (And, But, Therefore). 

Ekta Dhankar, Jyotsna Lall, Shipra Suneja, and Vardhna Puri, share their experience of teaching English to first-generation learners in rural Rajasthan, in the Learning Curve magazine, while highlighting the major outcomes of the programme.

Nitish Sehgal, in the i wonder magazine, explores how exercises requiring students to verbalise or pictorially depict their understanding of a particular phenomenon may help teachers understand the specific nature of their folk theories.

Ananya Vasishtha, Student, MA Public Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, in The Pioneer, explains how such stereotypes are perceived differently in more archaic forms in the rural areas, while women there lack popular voice.

Keeping existing knowledge as a base for building up new knowledge helps in engaging every child in the learning process, writes Pompa in the Learning Curve magazine.

Listen to the podcast by Harini Nagendra, Faculty, Azim Premji University, in The Swaddle, on re-imagining environmental sustainability, reframing the development versus environment binary, and creating more equal cities by fostering urban commons.

Kerala debate on Ambedkar shows his suit is a signifier on multiple levels. Some link it to Buddhist enlightenment, others to the 1942 SC federation flag, writes K Kalyani, Faculty member, Azim Premji University, in ThePrint.

G S Rautela, in i wonder magazine, presents simple but exciting experiments that can be performed with low-cost materials, to understand the basic principles of physics.

Aanchal Chomal and Anupama Raj, in The Indian Express, write that setting up clear benchmarks of quality and well-designed recruitment processes hold the key to ensuring better teaching-learning outcomes.

अनुराग बेहर, अजीम प्रेमजी फाउंडेशन के सीईओ, हिन्दुस्तान में लिखते है कि केंद्रीय विद्यालयों की तरह ही हम यदि अन्य सरकारी स्कूलों में निवेश कर सकें, तो निस्संदेह उनकी तस्वीर भी बदल जाएगी।

Torrential rains turned many parts of Bengaluru, including its tech corridors along the Outer Ring Road, into veritable lakes last week. Harini Nagendra, faculty member, Azim Premji University, in The Times of India, suggests solutions in an interview.

Sapna Mishra, faculty member, Azim Premji University, and Rakhal Gaitonde, in The Wire, highlight the plight of the workers who process e‑waste, as part of their PhD fieldwork conducted in the slums of a city in a south Indian state.

अध्यापकों की क्षमता और उनकी प्रभावशीलता में सुधार की जरूरत है। अनुराग बेहर, अजीम प्रेमजी फाउंडेशन के सीईओ, राजस्थान पत्रिका में लिखते है कि यह तभी हो सकेगा जब शिक्षक शिक्षा व शिक्षकों को अधिक कुशल बनाने की दिशा में संरचनात्मक और व्यवस्थित परिवर्तन होंगे।

We must go beyond band-aids and patchwork solutions, desilt our lakes and widen the concrete box drains to cope with intense bursts of heavy rainfall in short spells, writes Harini Nagendra, faculty member, Azim Premji University, in Deccan Herald.

The awareness to contribute and care for the environment can begin with teachers and children in schools, write Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli, in the Learning Curve magazine.

If we back the state run schools with the same investment as the country has made in KVs, our public schools will be transformed, says Anurag Behar, in Mint.

Ankit Shukla, in the Learning Curve magazine, shares learnings from a visit to a nearby forest that was planned with some children of a government school, inspired by Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, a book by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi.

Prashant Wahule, in i wonder magazine, explains how encouraging student-led inquiry, discussion, and collaborative work can help children to develop into confident learners by sharing an experience of hydroponic farming with tribal students of Ashram Shala.

Vidhya Das, in Learning Curve magazine, shares her experiences from Agragamee school, which addresses complex issues affecting learning in first-generation school children in the tribal districts of Orissa.

No matter what one does, the ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide is crucial and needed for everyday matters. Swati Sircar, in the Learning Curve magazine, explores the resources to enable children to master these basic operations. 

Compelling stories and evidence through case studies would support the understanding of Environmental Education (EE) writes Chandrika Muralidhar in the Learning Curve magazine.

In an era of massive environmental upheavals like deforestation, habitat loss, and global warming, Shampa M Ghosh, in i wonder magazine, explores how this approach can be a great tool to understand and predict evolutionary changes in nature.

When diversity of artistic expression is shared and discussed in the classroom, children get sensitised to perceive diversity and nuances within their own environment, writes Malavika Rajnarayan, in Learning Curve magazine.

Vikas Gotla, MA Development student, Azim Premji University, took a year to compile the data. He wants people to understand that they can count on buses and that a lot of money can be saved by using them.