
ASER 2024 shows massive improvement in basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills in primary school children: Detailed report
Op IndiaSchool education in rural India is witnessing a quiet but profound recovery from the Covid pandemic’s losses. States with more than a 10 percentage point increase in this proportion between 2022 and 2024 in government schools include Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Odisha, and Maharashtra,” the report states. Coming to the state-wise percentage of children aged 6-14 enrolled in government schools, the ASER data indicates that in the year 2024, states like Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Haryana had lowest enrolment rates between 30-50%. Effective implementation of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy activities, improved attendance levels, increase in small schools and multigrade classrooms The report says that ASER surveyors visited 15,728 government schools with primary sections. About the multigrade classrooms, the ASER says, “Two-thirds of Std I and Std II classrooms in primary schools were multigrade, with students from more than one grade sitting together.” Small but profound improvement in school facilities Citing the Right to Education-related indicators, ASER says that there have been small improvements between the 2018, 2022, and 2024 levels.
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