Author: Admin

We’re obsessed with measuring student learning, yet our grading systems often obscure what students actually know.
A student gets a ‘B’ in maths. What does that actually tell you?

We’re teaching in classrooms dominated by visual stimuli with textbooks, diagrams, slides, charts, videos, yet we barely acknowledge visual processing as a distinct learning modality worthy of explicit instruction.

We teach students to solve quadratic equations but not to understand compound interest. We drill them on probability theory but leave them vulnerable to predatory lending. We’re graduating students who can calculate percentages in textbooks but can’t distinguish between a mutual fund and a fixed deposit.

We’ve demonised the wrong thing. And it’s costing our students dearly.
India’s education discourse has become trapped in a false binary: memorisation bad, understanding good. NEP 2020 declares war on “rote learning”, while NCF 2023 celebrates “smriti” (memory). Educators are left confused, and students are caught in the crossfire of contradictory policies that treat memorisation and rote learning as synonyms when they’re fundamentally different.

We’re losing good principals to exhaustion, not incompetence.
I sat with a school leader last week who broke down in tears. Not because she’s failing—her school’s test scores are rising. But because she spent another day managing bus schedules, fielding parent complaints about mascot designs, and responding to board emails about bathroom policies. Meanwhile, the cultural shift her school desperately needs—building teacher collaboration, developing instructional leadership capacity, creating systems for student belonging—sits untouched. Again.

We’re preparing students for a world of skills-based hiring using a transcript that hasn’t changed in a 100 years.
Micro-credentials represented by digital badges and competency-based certifications that recognize specific demonstrated skills, are reshaping how employers evaluate talent, how universities award credit, and how professionals showcase expertise. Yet K-12 education largely ignores them, clinging to letter grades and Carnegie units that tell us nothing about what students can actually d

On this Teacher’s Day, we extend our heartfelt appreciation to all dedicated educators whose invaluable contributions shape our future. While we can never fully repay their service and commitment, we can amplify their voices on issues that matter most to them.

We talk at each other constantly in education, but when did we stop talking with each other?
Walk into any school system and you’ll find layers of monologue masquerading as communication. Administrators announce initiatives to teachers. Teachers deliver lessons to students. Parents complain to school boards. Students sit silently in rows. Everyone’s speaking, but nobody’s truly listening or responding.

While schools chase the latest educational technology, they’re overlooking their most underutilised academic asset: the professional librarian. Far from outdated book-keepers, today’s librarians are information literacy experts, research methodologists, and critical thinking coaches rolled into one.