This document proposes enhancing the quality of primary education in India through a program called "Stepping Stones." It notes that many Indian children do not complete primary education due to a lack of quality education in remote, rural areas. The proposed solution is to have volunteers bring technology equipment to public schools to provide 2 hours of daily classes focusing on English, computers, and collaborative learning in small groups. The volunteers would work with students and overcome gaps between rich and poor. Initial funding would come from the government or NGOs, while companies could support ongoing costs through CSR activities.

1. Stepping Stones: Enhancing the
quality of primary education
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2. Executive Summary
Key resources Key partners Value
proposition
Model Resources
Implementation
Key activites
Costs Channels
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3. Approach
• Approach
• Research
• Solution
• Implementation
• Resources
• Channels
• Costs
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4. Facts
• 58% of Indian children do not complete primary education*
• ASER report points there is a serious flaw in rural education*
• Remote parts of the country has the least access to education
• Education that’s being provided is not of the best quality*
• Proper environment for the education is not available in most schools
• Need to bring about change is need of hour - Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the
Right to Education Act 2010 as well as the Mid Day Meals Scheme have
worked wonders with little improvement
* Refer Appendix
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5. Research
Ken Robinson-
• Education kills creativity
Bunker Roy-
• Education for the poor not degree
Bill gates-
• Teacher feedback is important as is the teaching style
Daphine Balvier
• Creating a product which combines the things you don’t like and thing you love
Salman Khan
• Creating mass collaborated education in the modern world
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6. Solution
Giving access of technology to the primary students
and enable them to learn through discussion within a
group, as its believed that true education is in form of
knowledge that cant be thought.
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7. Implementation
• Volunteers moving to public school
• One two hours of classes daily
• Bringing all the technological equipment's
• Engaging the kids and introducing the English and computer education
• Making groups of children and letting them learn by collaboration
• Learning from the youngsters in the process
• Overcoming the gap between rich and poor
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8. Resources
• Initially government can give the funds
• NGO’s
• CSR activities
• College volunteers
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9. Channels
• Advertisements for the volunteers on TV , Print media, Social websites
• Making direct channels of communication between volunteers and
students
• Technological aspects- Laptops , tablets and free internet access for the
schools with lesser opportunities
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10. Cost
• Initial cost have to be burnt by the government
• Companies as part of CSR activities can donate laptops and tablets
• Travelling costs of the volunteers have to taken in account
• Plus provision for a sustained model of education and investment in the
future on this new revolutionized quality enhancement in primary
education
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12. Appendix
• http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx
• http://www.asercentre.org/education/India/status/p/143.html
• http://www.ssa.nic.in/
• http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-common/census_data_2001.html
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