"Working with the government, effectively" by Anurag Behar, Livemint, July 2017
The government is a monolithic abstraction that doesn’t actually exist; in reality, it is people that you have to work with.
Read More"Countering the false narrative" by Anurag Behar, Livemint, June 2017
Education can improve only as much as classroom pedagogic practice and school culture improves
Read More"Getting the right education administrators" by Anurag Behar, Livemint, June 2017
Authoritarianism in an education system is particularly problematic because it negates the very values of autonomy
Read More"Millet: A Different Journey" by Chandan Gowda, Bangalore Mirror, April 2017
The growing curiosity about millets should not remain a matter of personal food choices. It should help clarify that consumption has social consequences.
Read More"One woman alone" by Anurag Behar, Livemint, March 2017
Hundreds of thousands of teachers, like Chandrakala, in our country face similar circumstances and identical battles
Read More"Why We Fail Our Children" by Rohit Dhankar, The Indian Express, February 2017
Education should be sensitive to the child and not cause strain. If proper teacher training could lead to the implementation of CCE, as Kumar argues, it could also make annual examinations stress-free.
Read MoreMathematics Winter Workshop, Rudraprayag: A Field Report
Winter workshops is a peer learning collaborative platform for teachers to discuss on subject. This workshop aimed at working together on Mathematics
Read MoreWorking Paper: Notes on Nagaland’s Area by Ankush Agrawal and Vikas Kumar
This paper examines the implications of the absence of shared preferences over the quality of statistics within a government.
Read More"Private schools need to be regulated..." by Anurag Behar, Livemint, May 2017
The nexus between bad governance and bad schools crowds out good education
Read MoreLarge Camps for Teachers- A Rajasthan Experience: A Field Report
The document tries to cover entire journey of ‘Large Camps for Teachers’ organized in Rajasthan during 2015-16 & 2016-17 from conceptualization to execution through covering each aspect of the camps. A total of 8 such camps have been organized with 1162 teachers of 10 districts.
Read More"The false narrative of teacher absenteeism" by Anurag Behar, Livemint, April 2017
People easily talk of absenteeism ranging from 25- 50%, but study finds the rate between 2.5-5%
Read MoreWorking Paper: Curbing Crony Capitalism in India
Economic reforms sought to replace the Indian state dominant economy with a liberal, competitive market economy. However, a plethora of recent scams indicate that collusive rent sharing arrangements between business and policy makers are prevalent.
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