Pratham USA

Pratham's education programs focus on three major age groups of children: in their early years (ages 3-8) by helping children prepare for school; in primary school years (ages 8-10) by developing reading, writing and numeracy skills through engaging, hands-on activities that have been shown to improve learning drastically; and middle and high school years (ages 11-18) in building their skills for school, work and life. Pratham's work is both in schools and communities. In addition, Pratham also works with local governments to transfer know-how and to support learning for millions of children.

The vocational skills training program prepares india's youth for success by teaching relevant skills for today. The program takes youth and puts them through virtual and hands-on training offered across multiple industries: hospitality, construction, automotive, bedside assistance, etc. The program also offers entrepreneurship support for those who wish to start their own micro enterprises.

Pratham has been exploring how technology can augment our existing programs, help children sustain the progress they've made, and enable students to become learners outside of school. Using continuous data analysis to determine what content is relevant and engaging, our goal is to develop viable student-focused models that can accompany more traditional teacher-centric approaches to scale Pratham's methodologies across india's school-age population.

Aser: Pratham's annual status of education report (aser) measures basic literacy and numeracy skills, revealing the unspoken problem that school enrollment does not automatically translate into learning. Despite india achieving 97% school enrollment, poor attendance, oversized classes, and antiquated teaching methods have led to a learning crisis. The data we've collected since 2005 through our nationwide surveys has become an essential reference guide for the real status of children's learning across the country. Our data enables citizens to demand action and governments to make informed decisions.

Pratham's teaching at the right level (tarl) program builds foundational reading and math skills in primary school children. This program, which has been tried and tested for several years in india, is now being replicated in partnership with the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab (j-pal) in a few countries in africa. Pratham is the technical partner supporting governments and local organizations in africa in the implementation of the tarl method.

Amounts raised for pcvc and other programs, and for general operating support of Pratham education foundation