SCHOOL ADMISSIONS: 10 QUESTIONS EVERY PARENT MUST ASK The school is a place where your child will spend the next 14 years of his/her life. Is the school your child is going to, offering the best of resources? Is it helping your child learn outside of textbooks? More important, is it equipped to meet the future? It's the season of school admissions. Nearly 226 million Indian children are enrolled in schools -- 90 million of these children are attending 75,000 private schools... Read More
Poverty: Shocking Effects of Poverty on Education Poverty has been known to have core effects on education amongst children. It however has both positive and negative effects on these children, though the negative ones for outweigh the positive effects. Children from poor families receive a poor level of education as compared to those in families that are well off financially. In addition to this, chances of children in poor families enrolling in a class are dim, as the parents may depend ... Read More
The Childhood Obesity EPIDEMIC Eat better nothing less With nearly one in three children either overweight or obese (and therefore at higher risk for many chronic disease), More than 10 percent of world's population is now obese, a marked rise over the last 30 years that is leading to widespread health problems and millions of premature deaths, according to a new–study, the most comprehensive research done on the subject. The study, complied by the institute for Health Metrics and Evoluti... Read More
A series of colorful presentation "Maa Tujhe Salaam" at Albert Hall was performed by students of Rawat Public School, on the occasion of School Carnival organised by the Department of Archaeology and Museum. More than 200 students participated in the program. The program started on the day of Basant Panchami, with the worship of Goddess Saraswati. In the musical band the students presented various patriotic full tunes. Indian culture was presented beautifully in ''Rashtra Rakshanam Geet''. Al... Read More
Forced Patriotism: An issue of debate Gestures and acts like saluting the tri-colour flag, singing songs and reciting poems like Jana Gana Mana and Vandemataram and raising slogans like Inquilab Zindabad against the brutality of the ruling class played a key role in mass mobilization during the struggle for independent against the British. Even in post-independent India. The importance of such sloganeering has never been undermined and show of respect towards National Symbols continued espe... Read More
“Drugs and Peer Pressure” “Addiction is the only prison where the locks are on the inside.” During adolescence, life is challenging enough just dealing with fitting in and the changes that occur as you grow into an adult. CBS News reports that a recent survey indicates approximately two million teens between the ages of 12 and 17 currently need treatment for a substance abuse problem. But only about 150,000 get the help they need. Teenagers often experiment with a variety of activiti... Read More
Save a girl child and save yourself. Women are important in our society. Every woman has her own job or duty in this modern society in which men are unfortunately still the strongest genders, we cannot forget that a woman’s life is a lot more complicated than a man’s life. Gender roles are based on norms or standards, created by society, we consider, masculine roles are usually associated with strength, aggression and dominance, feminine roles are usually associated with passivity nurturing... Read More
Children are the future citizens of the country. The future of the country depends upon the present children. If the children are not developed in a proper way, the country’s future will be ruined. This was rightly realized by our late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. So, he advised the people to stop observing his birthday on the 14th November and to observe this day as the children’s Day. Since 1956 the 14th November is every year, observed in India as the Children’s Day. On the Child... Read More
Human civilization have been around for a paltry 12,000 years- hardly a few seconds on the geological clock. In this short a one unit of time, we have managed to create quite a ruckus etching our dominance over nature with village, towns, cities, megacities. The destruction of environment and the eradication of wildlife. Air pollution, water pollution, garbage and pollution of natural environment etc. are all challenges for India as well for whole world. According to World Bank experts, be... Read More
The safety of children is potentially at risk from accidents and injuries as well as crime. Providing a safe environment, putting prevention measures into practice and teaching children methods of self-protection are all ways to reduce the potential for harm to children. In 2007, Former President of India, A man of all tenses, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam had said “The rights of women and children and their aspirations are of paramount importance in our march towards an inclusive and equitable socie... Read More
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