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Cover Story EW INDIA SCHOOL RANKINGS 2024-25

robustness. into the limelight and offer themselves IIT/IIM alumni to develop students’
With several professedly education up to scrutiny, and compete to attract critical thinking, problem-solving,
news publications following in Edu- not only best students, but teachers as and creativity through gamified work-
cationWorld’s wake and transforming well. All this is very much in the public sheets comprising age-appropriate
the schools rating and rankings into a interest,” says Dr. Chona. puzzles and brain teasers. In early
blatantly quid pro quo business, there Again this year, to add an element June, all EWISR schools were in-
is considerable cynicism within aca- of objectivity under the parameter of vited to nominate students (10 each
demics and educators about the social academic reputation, we have intro- from classes IV, VI, VIII) to write
utility and benefit of institutional sur- duced the Global Young Schol- the 30-minute online Higher Order
veys, as also of the pioneer EWISR. ar Talent Search in partnership Thinking Test. In its second year, this
However Dr. Shyama Chona, the with the US-based Global Young test has attracted better response.
legendary former principal of Delhi Scholar (GYS), promoted by Dr. In this (September) Part I issue,
Public School, R.K. Puram (Delhi) Raymond Ravaglia, former dean we present national, state, city and pa-
during whose stewardship this school of pre-collegiate studies at Stanford rameter league tables of Day schools
was routinely ranked India’s premier University. In early June, schools were (co-ed day, boys, girls and day-cum-
co-ed day school, is convinced that invited to nominate classes VI-XI stu- boarding) as well as Vintage Legacy
ranking surveys and the annual EW- dents to write a GYS 25-minute online Day schools within these sub-catego-
ISR in particular, discharge a very exam assessing students’ mathemati- ries. The next Part II issue (October)
useful social purpose. cal capability, reading proficiency, and will feature Boarding, International,
“The breadth and depth of the EW- logical reasoning skills. Vintage Legacy, Government, Special
ISR which enables the country’s best Moreover to add an element of ob- Needs, Philanthropy and Super 30
schools to gain wide publicity, if not jectivity under the parameter of cur- Budget private schools league tables.
awards, prompts every institution to riculum and pedagogy (Higher Order If you discover more comprehen-
undertake determined improvement Thinking Skills) we have introduced sive ratings and rankings of prima-
efforts. This survey also encourages a Higher Order Thinking Test in ry-secondary schools in any country
obscure schools in Tier-II and Tier-III partnership with LogIQids, an ed- worldwide, you will be presented a
cities and small towns to step forward tech company promoted in 2016 by purse of Rs.50,000!

EWISR 2024-25 COUNTRYWIDE SURVEY

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Tier l, ll, lll & lV cities
(458 cities)

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