Has anyone tried the new Yahoo Glue Pages feature of Yahoo India?

I tried it and found it to have tremendous potential for teachers and students. SUppose a teacher is about to teach a lesson on a topic - if Yahoo's glue pages work - then not only does the teacher get all the information through the websites that show up (as with normal search) but also images, youtube videos, blogs, yahoo answers and even news related to the search topic. (great for subjects like Science and History etc where it's nice to make connections of the topic with something happening in the world. read more

I watched a TV program on Times Now this past weekend titled "Youth Diaries: When School is Fun". This particular episode was about alternative education and home schooling. read more

With hundreds of thousands of students in the throes of Board exam prep right now, I thought I would share this article I came across for parents who may be deciding between CBSE and ICSE and State Boards for their younger children who have not yet entered those dreaded grades of class 9/10. It's titled For Parents - Demystifying Boards and is authored by renowned "career counselor" Jayanti Ghose. read more

The latest issue of Education World magazine has run a cover story on "25 Wonder Products and Services transforming Indian education". I have to confess that I had not heard of more then 1/2 of them, but the list does cover a broad range of products. I am listing them here - read the article for more details on each of these. read more

One hears off and on about kids these days not learning cursive hand-writing well these days, or schools not placing much emphasis on hand-writing at all. Ditto for lack of emphasis on spelling.

"Let kids focus on the creative aspects of writing without getting bogged down by details such as spelling and handwriting, especially when they have to turn in the final version typed out in Word which has a spell-checker" is the view adopted by several urban, progressive schools where children use word processors like MS Word. read more

Here's an interesting way of learning Shakespeare! read more

I have often felt that the most ignored type of child in most regular schools, is the one that falls to the far right of the performance bell curve - the gifted child. Most schools cater to the mass of kids in the middle of the bell curve - most teachers teach to the middle - taking into account the "average" level of the classroom. read more

"THE GOLDEN ELEPHANT-15" will take place in Hyderabad, during November 14-20,2007

Hyderabad is an exotic combination of the past and present. Steeped in rich historical heritage has forts, museums and minarets rubbing shoulders with modern industrial and technological centres. read more

V.Raghunathan's article in the Economic Times paints a bleak picture of the state of PhDs in our country, both in terms of quantity as well as quality. read more

Amartya Sen has spoken about the truly shameful culture of private tuition at all levels in India "from university to primary classes".

Commenting that this is unheard of in any other part of the world, "be it China, Europe, America, Indonesia, Thailand", he urges educators to look into the root of the problem, and try to answer WHY there is a need for this - why is classroom teaching inadequate? read more