school vision 2025 india

Sumeet Yashpal Mehta, Feb 2014 ‘Every child learns’

School Educa@on -‐ Building Blocks for India’s Future

Mumbai 12th Feb, 2014 Sumeet Yashpal Mehta @mehtasumeet


School educa@on in India – a leaky bucket

All children born in India (100)

Marginal (5) All (6-‐14 yr) children enrolled in school (95)

(5) Drop outs (25)

All children who finish school (Secondary GER) (70)

(5) (25) Unlearned Graduates (50-‐55)

Those who learn (15-‐20)

•  1/4 of all students fall off the educa@on assembly line •  1/2 of the students get a cer@ficate but liOle learning

ASER 2013, World Bank Data


The crisis of children not in school

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45

Pre-‐primary Primary Secondary

Not enrolled

Pre-‐primary

Primary

Secondary

SSA, RTE has put most 6-‐14 year olds in school. But this starts late and doesn’t last long enough!

School Readiness Brain Science Path to a Living?


The bigger crisis of low learning! Reading ability is 8% to 11%!

Arithme@c ability is 26%!

PISA ASER NCERT


What does this leaky bucket lead to?

All children born in India

Marginal All children enrolled in school

Drop outs All children who finish school

5 25 Unlearned Graduates 50

Those who learn 20

Dispropor@onate share of na@onal

wealth

Unemployed, Underemployed,

Unskilled, unemployed, low wage earners

BPL


Leaky Bucket & Income Distribu@on

Those who learn

Unlearned Graduates

Dropouts

Marginal

Dispropor@onate

Underemployed

Unemployed

BPL

But there are more las@ng impacts of this leaky bucket………


The Leaky Bucket impacts genera@ons

Those who learn

Unlearned Graduates

Dropouts

Marginal

Dispropor@onate

Underemployed

Unemployed

BPL

The story of Shaila– the loss of a genera@on


The Genera@onal Effects -‐ Dropouts

Those who learn

Unlearned Graduates

Dropouts

Marginal

Dispropor@onate

Underemployed

Unemployed

BPL


The Genera@onal Effects – Unlearned Graduates

Those who learn

Unlearned Graduates

Dropouts

Marginal

Dispropor@onate

Underemployed

Unemployed

BPL

The story of Priya – the loss of a genera@on


We need a Great Big Leap!

Those who learn

Unlearned Graduates

Dropouts

Marginal

Dispropor@onate

Underemployed

Unemployed

BPL


And we need a different bucket!

Those who learn

Unlearned Graduates

Dropouts

Marginal

Every child learns

Linguis@c Logical Physical Crea@ve Inter-‐personal

Intra-‐ personal

Common minimum learning outcomes


HOW


BUT FIRST, WHY ARE WE IN THIS STATE?


WHY

Access Poor Demand •  Parents lack resources to afford

educa@on •  AOach an opportunity cost to child’s

educa@on •  Even more basic needs not met yet

Poor Supply

•  Far flung areas s@ll not meet the RTE requirement of a school within 5 km





Those who learn 20


WHY

Access & Quality

Access •  Most schools are s@ll @ll elementary

level •  Opportunity cost of being in school

starts becoming high

Quality •  Compounded by low learning due to

poor teaching or no teaching





Those who learn 20


WHY

Quality

Quality •  Poor teaching •  Poor teaching •  Poor teaching





Those who learn 20


WHY

Quality -‐ Poor Leadership Skills -‐ Poor Ethics

Quality •  Narrow curriculum goals •  Poor Role Modeling





Those who learn 20


WHY




Unlearned Graduates Those who learn

Access -‐ Poor Demand -‐ Poor Supply

Access & Quality -‐ Poor Supply of Secondary Schools -‐ Poor Demand -‐ Poor teaching

Quality -‐ Poor teaching

Quality -‐ Poor Leadership -‐ Poor Role Modeling


Public School System

Parent

Teacher

Owner (Government)

Child

High Power No Incen@ve to Perform

Low Power Low choice


Private School System

Parent

Teacher

Owner (Promoter)

Child

Low Power (for low fee) High Power (for high fee) High Incen@ve to Perform

High Power High choice


In a nutshell

Consumers have no power & no choice

Providers have high power and liOle incen@ve to

perform

Poor quality of teaching Low system wide reform

20% children learning

30% children out of school

50% children not learning


The answers we get depend on…

the ques@ons we ask


2 Ques@ons we can ask

How do we solve the problems facing Indian

school educa@on?

How do we create an

educa@on system that ensure every

child learns?


There are enough schools

Parents have money to

choose schools

Parents have informa@on to choose the appropriate

school

Schools con@nuously learn and improve

Teachers con@nuously learn and

enable every student to

learn

School leaders create

ins@tutes of excellence

Students develop the knowledge, skills and

values to lead the 21st century

A vision of school educa@on -‐ 2025


8 steps to achieving vision 2025

Mission Mode


1. Create Common Minimum Outcomes

•  What do we want every child to learn at the minimum?

•  How do we nurture mul@ple intelligences? •  How do we offer mul@ple pathways?


2. Empower parents

•  Introduce Voucher system •  Fuel demand for schools


3. Universalize pre-‐primary and secondary educa@on too

•  Right to pre-‐primary (at least 2 years) educa@on •  Right to secondary educa@on @ll Grade 10


4. Re-‐imagine how schools are set up

Fuel supply of schools •  Make academic plan a pre-‐requisite

•  Universalize broadband in schools as knowledge highway

•  Offer land and capital and subsidized rate in return for voucher seats


5. Create Independent School ra@ng system

•  To enable parent choice •  To encourage whole school performance •  To weed out non performing operators •  Roster of Independent Ra@ng Agencies


6. Introduce meritocracy in teaching

•  Overhaul Teacher Educa@on (Pre-‐service & In-‐service)

•  Incen@vize good teaching (student learning outcomes based)

•  Celebrate & recognize teacher role models


7. Create a cadre of School Leaders

•  Ini@ate and sustain school level reform •  Create a separate Masters of School

Leadership Program as minimum requirement


8. Introduce standardized ap@tude tes@ng of learning levels

•  Na@onal Ap@tude tests for Grade 5, 8 and 10 across boards and schools

•  Tiered -‐ Planorms for Sports, Arts, •  Use tes@ng for ongoing system reform


1. Common Minimum Outcomes

2. Empower parents

3. Universalize Pre-‐primary & Secondary Educa@on

4. Re-‐imagine Seong up schools

5. Independent

School Ra@ngs

6. Meritocracy in teaching

7. School Leaders Cadre

8. Standardized Tes@ng & Tiered

Planorms

ACCESS

QUALITY

THE 8 STEPS


What we do today, will determine what India will do in 2025

It is @me to take the Great Big Leap.


About the speaker – Sumeet Yashpal Mehta

•  Educator, Trainer, Speaker, Social Entrepreneur •  Chairman, Shan@ Niketan English School, Mahemdabad •  Managing Director, Leadership Boulevard Private Limited •  Teacher and Trainer for students, teachers, school

principals on Personal Leadership •  Ex – Chief Execu@ve Officer, Zee Learn Limited •  Set-‐up more than 60 K-‐12 schools and 1050 pre-‐schools all

over India. •  Speaks and writes extensively about the goal of ‘every child

learning in India’ •  IIM, Ahmedabad, 1999

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