TN makes headway in meeting RTE indicators

CHENNAI: It is important to help parents and teachers understand the learning goals well so they can work together to enable children to achieve these goals. "The goals need to be within the reach of a majority of all children enrolled in Class 1," she said. 

The state, however, has made a slight improvement when it comes to meeting otherRTE indicators when it comes to infrastructure and meeting the pupil-teacher ratio and classroom-teacher ratio norms. 

The number of schools that have the required number of toilets has increased, but the number that meets the drinking water requirement has gone down compared to last year. Tamil Nadu has always done well in terms of enrolment rates. 

The number of government school students attending private tuitions has been going down steadily since 2009; this year there has been a sharp drop in the number of children in private schools joining tuitions. 

Overall, the report found that 13.1% of students in rural parts take tuitions to improve their academic performance. Teachers in government and aided schools in the state are banned from taking private tuitions, and the state recently issued a stern warning to those who continued to do it. Volunteers visited 553 schools in rural parts of the state to conduct the survey.