ABSTRACT
India’s ‘crisis in learning’ (Banerji 2014) has been meticulously documented since 2005 by the Annual Status of Education Reports (ASER) – a citizen-led survey of about 600,000 children. These surveys test reading and arithmetic skills in every district of rural India. As their website explains,
Children in the age group 5–16 are tested in basic reading and basic arithmetic. The same test is administered to all children. The highest level of reading tested corresponds to what is expected in Std 2; in 2012 this test was administered in 16 regional languages.
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