A journey toward outcomes and scale for girls’ education in India
[ Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of blogs written by the Educate Girls team and addressing key themes facing CEI innovators and their supporters: how to become an outcomes-focused organization, navigate the path to scale, tackle structural inequality, and help marginalized children get the education they deserve.] January’s launch of the 2017 Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) made for some concerning reading. Over 30,000 14-18 year olds across India were surveyed and assessed to understand their learning levels, abilities and aspirations. These young people are the first cohort to have ‘benefitted’ from India’s Right to Education (RTE) Act, enacted in 2010. They have experienced a no-detention, free and compulsory education for the last 8 years, but the 2017 ASER results show that they remain without basic literacy and numeracy competencies in place, and girls are faring the worst. The RTE Act was no doubt a revolutionary step in the right direction. It has s...