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India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

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Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. Just under three-quarters of students in rural India can’t subtract two-digit numbers by grade three, and only half of grade five students can read at a second-grade level, according to a recent World Bank report. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. With over 1.3 A good life’.

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The potential, promise and pitfalls of blended learning in India

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The setting seems highly unlikely for an innovation like blended learning to take root. billion population is under 25, will need some three million new primary school teachers by 2030. So why is there so much optimism about blended learning as a solution?

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What do at-risk students, English language learners and adult college students have in common?

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The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. The Hechinger Report.