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Reconciling school, board and entrance examinations
Introduction The students nowadays not only write board, JEE, NDA, NEET, etc. but also SRM JEE, Manipal JEE, and any university that's ...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
Jul 5, 20248 min read


Effective Implementation of Educational Technology in Kendriya Vidyalayas
Part I: The Concept India, our great motherland with its rich tradition and a brilliant past, where the epics speak of such weapons as...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
Nov 24, 202310 min read


Zero Failure in Board Examinations: An Action Plan
“A nation is advanced in proportion as education and intelligence spread among the masses. The chief cause of India’s ruin has been the...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
Nov 12, 20238 min read


Primary Mathematics in Secondary Perspective
Enquiring into the origins of any phenomenon is the most difficult task. An answer to the question “chicken came first or the egg?” is...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
Aug 13, 20236 min read


Reimagining and Reinventing Board Examinations
In the academic stream of class XII, CBSE offers about 42 subjects, 39 languages of which 12 are foreign languages; in the vocational...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
Jun 13, 20215 min read


New Education Policy: Boon; Bane; What?
I participated as as speaker for an online panel that was convened to discuss the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Here are my...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
Oct 18, 20201 min read


Mathematics: A Teacher's Challenge*
PREAMBLE Quality, in educational parlance stands for that whole child who emerges as a fulsome man* capable of weighing each situation...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
Sep 20, 202011 min read


Study your Subjects the Play Way - It's all in the Game
It was a day when two teams were playing in a Football National Tournament in a school in Kerala. All of a sudden it started raining...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
Oct 6, 20194 min read


Computer-Aided Learning
It is a theory that all living beings are made up of five elements, only the ratio is different. It is believed that in the Devas...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
Sep 1, 20196 min read


The Constructivist Teacher
The Human Beings (Homo sapiens) are the highest evolved of all species in this world. There is an inherent potential in each child to...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
Jun 9, 20196 min read


Commit to Memory for Consolidating Brain Power
"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
May 29, 20194 min read


Reading Maketh a Full Man
With the advent of the electronic age, videos, internet, mobile etc. the modern youth has no patience to wrap himself/herself with a...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
May 25, 20196 min read


Early Childhood Care And Education: Equal Onus on Educators Too
It is said that Abhimanyu, son of the great warrior, Arjun and who in death attained immortality, learnt the art of entering the...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
May 25, 20194 min read


The Question of Mandatory Class X Board Examination: CCE and its Aftermath
Note: Any gender reference applies equally to all gender equivalents. The success of any scheme lies in understanding its import in...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
May 19, 20196 min read


Letter to the Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu
Dear Sir, First and foremost let me wish you and your readers a very happy and prosperous 2017. This is with reference to your editorial...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
May 18, 20192 min read


CCE Empowers Teachers for Personalized Instruction
Here are the Three E's of CCE: Empowers teachers to decide as per individual needs, Enables facilitators to individualize instruction,...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
May 10, 20195 min read


CCE: Construction & Creation in Education? Or Confusion & Chaos in Education? The Concern*
The caption is a sequel of the usual customer reaction to a new product. The concept and its controversies! There was much hype...

Chitralekha Gurumurthy
Mar 31, 20197 min read
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