EI Dialogues with Sridhar Rajagopalan, Educational Initiatives (S2E3)

Описание: In this episode of #EIDialogues, we talk to Sridhar Rajagopalan, the President and Chief Learning Officer of Educational Initiatives. Sridhar talks about why he co-founded Educational Initiatives after running a school for 6 years, the idea behind doing Assessments and using EdTech for improving learning outcomes. Sridhar further tells us about the discipline of Science of Learning, what investments we must make in education to yield maximum outcomes at scale, how can India do better on tests like PISA, and the role of nurturing gifted students for them to become leaders of tomorrow.

About Sridhar Rajagopalan:

Sridhar Rajagopalan is an educational entrepreneur who has helped change the way student-learning outcomes are seen in India. He worked in IBM India for two and a half years before co-founding and running Eklavya School in Ahmedabad. Sridhar is a member of various central and state government committees related to education, including the committee for devising model rules for the Right to Education Act in Gujarat. He is a member of NCERT’s National Expert Group on Assessment in Elementary Education (NEGAEE) and a trustee of Pratham, Gujarat as well as other educational institutions.

About the host:

Pranav Kothari is the head of the Large Scale Education Programmes division at Educational Initiatives (EI). He leads EI's work in student assessments and implementation of their adaptive learning software (Mindspark) in vernacular languages in government and affordable private schools across India. He has spoken on various platforms advocating the need to leverage the twin levers of cutting-edge educational research and technology-based solutions to revolutionize how children in the K-12 space learn.

About Educational Initiatives:

Founded in 2001, Educational Initiatives (EI) is committed to improving learning outcomes and aspires for a world where all children learn with understanding. Large Scale Education Programs is the vertical of Educational Initiatives that exclusively works with low income government schools, specializing in diagnostic assessments for students and teachers, capacity building of teachers and governments, implementation of adaptive and intelligent e-learning systems for personalized learning, impact assessment studies and exploratory research studies that focus on bringing a systemic reform. This is done in collaboration with state governments, international grantmakers, corporate foundations, and NGOs.

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Other episodes:

Season 1
Rukmini Banerji, Pratham
Akshay Saxena, Avanti Fellows
Sourav Banerjee, Room to Read
Parth Shah, Centre for Civil Society
Vinod Karate, TheTeacherApp
Kruti Bharucha, Peepul
Dhir Jhingran, Language and Learning Foundation
Amitav Virmani, The Education Alliance

Season 2:
Anil Swarup, Former Secretary, Government of India
Karthik Muralidharan, Co-Chair, Education Research, JPAL

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