Byju's tablets & bilingual textbooks—Andhra Pradesh is bracing for a school revolution

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But whats giving her confidence now in ninth grade is a new bilingual textbook and a Byjus tablet in her school bagpart of an ambitious, new learning innovation distributed to students across schools by the Andhra Pradesh government this year...

The bilingual textbooks innovation is meant to help students transition seamlessly from Telugu-medium education in primary schools and Telugu homes into English education.When they enter class 8, thingsaretaken up a notch..

A child who grows up with Hindi knows Hindi, Urdu boy knows Urdu, says Andhra Pradesh education ministerBotcha Satyanarayana, even though the YSR Congress government has given English a consistent and fervent push since it was elected in 2019.Now, the new textbooks-tablet initiativecomes straight fromChief MinisterJaganMohan Reddy.They arent able to understand immediately..

Even though the schools they attend are English medium, outside the classroom, be it with their peers or family members, students naturally converse in what is very much their first language, Telugu...

Prior to joining Chirumamilla villages model school last year, she had been placed at one of the states other model schools in 2015.Even without a trump card like the bilingual textbook, when she speaks to her students who have graduated, their conversations are held only in English..

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