AAP’s Delhi education revolution was not all sound and fury: researcher
The HinduWith Delhi set to face elections next year, it may be time to examine once again if what the Aam Aadmi Party represents can be an alternative to the BJP. Yamini Aiyar, a senior visiting fellow at Brown University in the U.S.A and former CEO of the Center for Policy Research, says that while learning outcomes must have improved as a result of the AAP government’s initiatives, what is more important is the shift in equilibrium at the level of teachers and school administrators towards improving learning outcomes including for the backbencher than just scoring marks in the exam and achieving all-pass in final exams. Ms. Aiyar’s recent book, Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi’s Schools, chronicles a research project she and fellow researchers undertook on a key education reform initiative of the AAP government. The AAP ‘education revolution’ consisted of the following: improving school infrastructure; improving learning quality through disruptive pedagogical interventions; reshaping the assessment structure to align with student mastery over concepts rather than rote learning; and improving accountability through enhanced parental participation in school activities. But now the distance between student learning levels and their gaps in exam readiness had become a topic of conversation amongst teachers, preparing the ground for a dialogue on what it meant for students to acquire subject mastery and how to ‘teach’ in this reality, she says, adding, “The ship was sinking and the Delhi government has been able to steady the course.” In other words, a beginning has indeed been made toward solving the core issues of school education.
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