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Purnima Ramanujan

Independent Researcher
Purnima.ramanujan@gmail.com

Purnima Ramanujan is an education policy researcher with experience in designing and implementing large-scale, mixed-methods, longitudinal, and experimental studies. Purnima headed ASER Centre’s research division and is currently pursuing her master’s in education from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. Her broader research interests lie in early childhood and adolescent education, gender, and school-family engagement.

Posts by Purnima Ramanujan

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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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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