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sbhattacharjea@gmail.comDr Suman Bhattacharjea is a Director of ASER Centre. She earned her undergraduate degree in Economics with Honors from Delhi University, and M.Ed. and Ed.D. degrees in Education from Harvard University. Dr Bhattacharjea has extensive experience in the fields of education, gender, and women’s rights. She has worked with government, private, non-government and international organisations in several countries, including India, US, Pakistan and Mexico. She has taught courses on research design, gender and education and has authored or co-authored numerous articles and books in these areas.
Posts by Suman Bhattacharjea
India’s early years mathematics curriculum: Continuity, discontinuity and progression
Research has shown the importance of building strong foundations for learning, as the development of cognitive skills in preschool and early primary years is predictive of later mathematical achieveme...
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Benjamin Alcott Suman Bhattacharjea Caroline Dyer Aashna Khurana Purnima Ramanujan 
02 January, 2023
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What do children in rural India do in their early years?
This year’s Annual Status of Education Report throws light on what children in India do in their early years. In this article, Bhattacharjea and Ramanujan argue that the assumption that there is a u...
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Suman Bhattacharjea Purnima Ramanujan
- 29 March, 2019
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Translating the 'Right to Education': Assumptions and reality
The Right to Education Act focuses on inputs in the schooling process and teaching the prescribed curriculum, but has little to say about learning outcomes of children. This article argues that educat...
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Suman Bhattacharjea Wilima Wadhwa
- 18 October, 2013
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