Priyank Sharma
Complexity of the Indian Education System
This will be worth reading for anyone who wants to get a deeper understanding of the complexity of the Indian education system (the story...
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List of Must-read books in Education
I have received several messages from people intending to understand the Indian Education System. I am sharing with you what I feel is a...
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What does education lead to?
Education helps in providing skills/knowledge Skills lead to better job Better job means better pay (So, education helps in alleviating...
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What's education for? Who's a well educated individual?
The story is of my engineering days at NIT Jalandhar. Since it was an NIT, the students in this story lie in the top 5% of the 1 million...
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What education means for a young boy/girl in the hills?
There was a village in a remote hilly area. The place was away from the city hustle. The people in the village cultivated their own food,...
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Which is the most urgent area of research for improving the Indian Education System?
I was recently asked the above question. The immediate answer that came to me: "It's hands down - Teacher Education". Historically,...
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How to access research papers behind paywalls?
I was approached by someone regarding a research paper they wanted to access. This is what I told them. Never type on google: sci-hub...
Priyank Sharma
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ProTips for research
1. Typeset.io is a better place to search for relevant research papers than google search, jstor search, google scholar search or any...
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How the non-state actors can impact the state driven education system?
There has been an increasing intervention of non-state actors in the domain of education. Arguably, what was previously a work of the...
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Agency of a teacher in the textbook culture
A curriculum designer went overboard in explaining how his publisher's books are extra-ordinary; that they don't just design the content...
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Core challenge of a private low income school
One of the critical problems faced by a private low income school in an urban or semi-urban space is teacher attrition. Let's say there's...
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Why education reform efforts don't work?
Problem: The system is rote learning based. Solution: Let's do experiential learning. Problem: The students from marginalized background...
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Policy Analysis: Gender vs Gendering
This is a technical post, albeit an important one. I would try to put it across in as much simple words as possible; please read Prof....
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Why do great policies fail during implementation?
"Policy is great, implementation is the problem" - You would often hear this. Why? Why do great policies fail during implementation? In...
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Is policy a legal document? Are states supposed to adhere to the national education policy 2020?
Is policy a legal document? Are states supposed to adhere to the national education policy 2020? What if, they don't? Why can't policies...
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How a policy is impacted by political intervention?
In the last blog, taking the example of National Education Policy 2020, I discussed how policy changes shape even though it begins with...
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How is a policy made? Example of National Education Policy 2020
How are policies made? Are they top down? Bottom up? Most of you would have read or at least know about the 60 pages National Education...
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Edtech, value through external research partnerships
As an official reviewer of a global competition, I noticed a stark difference between the grant proposals from edtech companies in India...
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Edtech, why the focus should be on learning science research?
How do you determine if an edtech product is great? More often than not, edtech companies will claim that the edtech platforms increased...
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Why pre-test and post-test aren't the best ways to show edtech impact?
To the Edtech World, Stop showing pre-test and post-test statistics as metric of success! I was advising an edtech company on their...
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