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In the first sign of recovery from the slump of the Covid pandemic, reading and arithmetic levels for children between the ages of 6 and 14 years have improved across states, with government schools leading the way. According to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2024.
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AS PRIME Minister Narendra Modi travels to Paris to co-chair the Al summit convened early next month by French President Emmanuel Macron, and may also go to Washington-if plans to meet President Donald Trump work out the Indian establishment has to get its sums right in assessing the implications of tween US and of Chinese Al assistant DeepSeek R1 over the weekend. DeepSeek reminds us of the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, the Earth's first artificial satellite in October 1957. The stunning demonstration of Soviet Russia's capabilities in frontier technology set off panic within the smug American establishment that was so confident of its dominance in science and technology.
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This Year Aser went back to almost all rural districts of the country to report on children's schooling status and basic reading and arithmetic levels. Data from ASER 2024 helps track the progress of foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) skills across the country. The 2024 report has good news. It shows more than a full recovery from the post-pandemic learning losses. What is remarkable is that this recovery is completely driven by government schools. In rural India, government schools have always lagged behind private schools in terms of learning levels. There is vast literature on the learning differential between government and private schools, highlighting the fact that simply comparing learning levels across the two is misleading because of the self-selection effect. Children who go to private schools come from more affluent homes and have more educated parents. Nevertheless, ASER 2024 shows that the recovery has been pronounced in government schools.
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President Trump signed an executive order announcing that it was the policy of the US government that there were only two sexes, and that those sexes were "not changeable". Although the precise implications of that order are unclear, it brings into focus that debates around gender will be a key legal battleground in the US, the UK and other Western democracies. Transgender teenagers and their families, supported by the Joe Biden administration, challenged the Tennessee law claiming that it violated the guarantee of equal protection under the US Constitution. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law on the basis that it treated all children alike no child, whether born male or female, was permitted to receive those medical treatments. In places where medical treatments for gender dysphoria in children are permitted and a child has consented to treatment, how interventionist should the courts be? The English court concluded that it would only intervene when necessary to protect the child from 'grave and irreversible mental or physical harm'. It is easy to imagine other courts reaching a different conclusion.
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THE SECURITIES and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is planning to introduce a "when-listed" plat-form which will allow trading of shares of companies in a period between allotment of shares post the closure of initial publicoffering (IPO) bidding process and official listing on stock exchanges. In order to reduce grey mar-ket activity in stocks of companies that have allotted shares to in-vestors after the completion of the IPO bidding process but are awaiting listing on bourses, the capital markets regulator is work-ing on a "when-listed" facility.
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A new study has revealed that over 7,500 lakes in west Greenland have turned brown and began emitting carbon due to the extreme weather events of 2022. The study, 'Abrupt transformation of west Greenland lakes following com-pound climate extremes associated with atmospheric rivers', was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last week. Greenland typically experiences snowfall between late August and September. However, warmer temperatures in 2022 resulted in massive rainfall and the thawing of permafrost - frozen ground which often contains a significant amount of organic carbon. With record rainfall, carbon, iron, magnesium, and other elements trapped in permafrost were washed into the lakes. This transformed their physical, chemical, and biological properties. The dramatic impact was visible by July 2023.
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Chipmaker Nvidia's share price has witnessed the largest single-day decline for a US public company, over concerns regarding the launch of an artificial intelligence model from Chinese start-up DeepSeek, which triggered a broader sell-off in tech stocks across markets from New York to Tokyo. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index dropped by more than 3 per cent. DeepSeek has managed to train a foundational model to rival American players such as ChatGPT and Meta's Llama, but at much lower costs by using far fewer chips. This set off concerns that the red-hot demand for specialised hardware needed to train Al models will now taper off. That is clearly a negative for companies like Nvidia.
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At the elementary level (age 6 to 14 years), covered under the Right to Education Act of 2005, both reading and arithmetic levels have improved for children in all grades in most states. In particular, children in Classes 1 to 3 show significant increases from the 2022 ASER report. The NEP introduced structural changes - particularly by including the 3 to 6 age group in the larger picture. The policy underlines that the highest priority will be given to achieving universal Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN). Launched in 2021, the National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN) Bharat was aimed at improving these skills. It aims for universal FLN at the end of Class 3 (age 8) by 2026-27.
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