A Teacher Story From Bengaluru: Helping Students Learn English

In our last blog, we introduced you to Ms Mercy Padmavathi from the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu who is helping students learn English with technology-enabled tools. Ms Mercy has used ReadToMe® software for over three years to teach English in her classroom. (If you missed it, read all about her journey, click here.). Every ReadToMe® enabled classroom is made successful by […]

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A Teacher Story From The Nilgiris: Teaching English Using Technology | English Learning

Every year in September, we take a few steps back and dedicate a day to honour our teachers. We have celebrated India’s 2nd President, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan‘s birthday, September 5, as Teacher’s Day across the nation since 1962.  From our very first day at school to the end of our academic life, our teachers inspire us in many ways. A great […]

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4 Ways In Which ReadToMe® Can Help Students Cope With The Pandemic: Learning From Home

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused panic all around. Widespread closure of schools was essential to slow the spread of the pandemic and keep our children safe. Educators and students are challenged by the resultant ambiguity and the need to ensure continuity of education. The pandemic has demonstrated that education systems around the world were not prepared for such an […]

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Teaching English Online To Government School Students

RightToRead, an edtech program, is an effort to demonstrate that technology that supports reading and comprehension can play a major role in enhancing English proficiency of students in government schools. The initiative aims to enable English literacy in India (and globally) with the help of multi-sensory reading and comprehension AI software– ReadToMe® (research indicates, language is learnt best when learners […]

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RightToRead Program in Latin America | EdTech | EnglishHelper

EnglishHelper recently submitted an application for the TPrize 2020 Challenge focused on Latin America and the Caribbean: How can disadvantaged communities design and participate in skills-based and lifelong learning opportunities to create productive and prosperous livelihoods in the 21st century? Latin America: the Reading Challenge and Learning English  Latin America has a reading crisis. Results from PISA 2018 reveal that, […]

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English Literacy Initiative in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas | RightToRead

EdTech | English Literacy Initiative| Education System in India | Technology | Reading and Comprehension Skills The National Education Policy (NEP) 1986 envisaged the establishment of residential schools known as Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNVs) for talented students, predominantly from rural India. The Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti was tasked with the establishment and administration of these fully residential and co-educational schools. JNVs […]

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An English Literacy Initiative in West Bengal: RightToRead

Over the past decade, research conducted across government schools confirms that India has a major English literacy issue. This issue is across languages i.e. the first language (often mother tongue) and second/ third languages as per school curriculum.  According to ASER 2016, only 45.2% of children from grade 8 could read simple sentences in English. This is a matter of […]

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An Evidence-Based EdTech Reading And Comprehension Program- RightToRead

English Literacy Initiative | Evidence-based Edtech | Reading Comprehension Program The world of Randomised Controlled Trials has been demystified, thanks to the Nobel Prize-winning work of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer. RCTs, as they are more commonly referred to, are experiments designed to isolate the impact of an intervention (or in a clinical setting, a treatment) that can […]

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Small Steps, Giant Leaps Towards Enabling English Literacy in Nepal

The RightToRead program aims at enabling English literacy through large-scale technology deployment with a multi-sensory AI reading and comprehension software ReadToMe® in classrooms. After establishing itself as an effective tool for English literacy in government schools in India, ReadToMe® went global in the year 2015.  RightToRead is known for its easy-to-use technology, cost-effectiveness, scalability, and adaptability. Its successful implementation and […]

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Business For Good | Social Enterprise

Over the last few decades, global wealth is estimated to have nearly doubled. Unfortunately, inequality has also increased. In other words, a small percentage of people have gained disproportionately.  Meanwhile, as the world gets ‘richer’ a significant number of the global population continues to be denied even the basics of food, housing, health and education. With increasing size and spread, there […]

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