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GIFTED CHILDREN: EDUCATION NEWS
URGENT! ENABLE INDIA'S Maharashtra:
REAL DEMOGRAPHIC Magnum force K-12
venture
DIVIDEND NOW Delhi:

To a nation with education Double trouble
and economy in the
doldrums, India's 10-25 Tamil Nadu:
million gifted children Damaging antagonism
offer hope of inventing
and innovating sock-it- Karnataka: Welcome
to-'em killer products and skilling initiative
services that will leapfrog
the country to the forefront
of the global economic West Bengal: New
development race beginning?

28 LANGUAGE WEAPONISATION IN

LINGUISTIC POLITICS
Go to any school, and you will sense the problem:
most teachers don’t treat language as a means
to think and express. Reading and writing are
58 taught as mechanical skills
— Krishna Kumar
Union Budget 2025-26
HALF PRESCRIPTION FOR EMBED NET ZERO EDUCATION IN K-12 CURRICULA
VIKSIT BHARAT Net-zero education necessitates weaving

Constructing enabling infrastructure is environmental sustainability into K-12 54
a necessary but not sufficient condition curricula. However, climate literacy is noticeably
of GDP growth. There's little awareness absent as a core subject in mainstream
in the budget that hard infrastructure education — P. GopalaKrishnan
requires to be maintained and managed
by soft infrastructure — well-educated
and trained human resources to IN THIS ISSUE
29 Editorial 10 Special Essay 34
optimise return on investment

30 YOUNG ACHIEVERS Mailbox 12 Cover Story 36
Tanish Kumar Sahu
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Garuda Balaji
WISDOM HIGH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL Education Notes 26 Teacher-2-Teacher 54
SERENE MEADOWS, NASHIK Education Briefs 27 Special Report 58
Currently celebrating its silver
jubilee year, WHIS-SM is Expert Comment 28 Pictorial Essay 66
ranked Nashik's #1 co-ed day
school and among the Top 50 Young Achievers 29 Books 80
in Maharashtra in the EW India
School Rankings 2024-25 Institution Profile 30 Postscript 82

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