-Economic and Political Weekly
The release of the independent Annual Status of Education Report has become an annual event, bringing attention to the status of learning amongst children in rural India. An examination of the 2014 report looks at the representation of data within the binary of government vs private schooling, as well as the silence of the report on the quality of private schools, and highlights the need to move beyond binaries to understand teaching-learning processes better.
Vivek Vellanki (vivek.vellanki@gmail.com) is at the Regional Resource Centre for Elementary Education, University of Delhi.
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