It aligns with 2023 National Curriculum Framework, updated to reflect NEP, which aims to reduce high-stakes nature of board exams by allowing students two attempts per year.
Though Kerala HC has deferred order to implement three-language policy, residents point at growing frictions involving controversial policy changes & regulations in past few years.
New Class 7 social science textbook is latest in NCERT’s revamped series under NEP 2020 and new NCF, which stresses content ‘rooted in the Indian and local context and ethos’.
Haryana proposes students be taught that Maharishi Kanada is father of atomic theory not John Dalton. YSRCP-led Andhra says need to 'not succumb to superstition in name of antiquity'.
NCF, released Wednesday, envisions sweeping changes for grades 9-12. These include twice-yearly board exams for grades 10 & 12, more study subjects, and end of traditional stream system.
Rhymes like ‘Chanda mama door ke’, ‘Murga bole kukdu ku’ are among the new additions. Kids in stories & poems greet each other with ‘namaste’, ‘shubh ratri’ and ‘suprabhat’.
Responding to letter by Textbook Development Committee members, NCERT says function & term of committees have ended, adding names of academics just an acknowledgement of their contribution.
Once we give up this myth of school textbooks as the fountain of truth and the child as an empty vessel, we can take a more sober view of what textbooks can and cannot do.
New National Curriculum Framework for School Education says schools may do this so teachers 'remain standing and in moving condition'. Draft currently open to feedback from stakeholders.
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