National Achievement Survey

I'm also curious to know about the results, the results of your work, not just in AI, but in general.

I read that Tamil Nadu came out of the bottom 10 states on the National Achievement Survey for the first time in a decade.

And so I would love to know, how are you involved in making that happen? What is your and Maddy's...

impact on this? And more largely, how do you measure your impact at Masih? What are some of the key indicators and what have you seen happen in the last 10 years?

But of course, I think even in terms of learning outcomes, Tamil Nadu as a system has worked incredibly hard to, you know, not that moving up these national rankings is the sort of preoccupation or the only goal, but it's It's always good to have that sort of validation, right? So it's for the first time in the last 10 years that we've moved up the rankings and not down.

So that's the first piece of good news.

We moved up from 23 to 20 on the National Achievement Survey.

But we're also...

So let's begin with numbers.

ASER and the National Achievement Survey keep telling us the same story, that a large share of children in our schools can't do grade-level maths or reading by the time they are in middle school.

So Abhijeet, before we get into any of the solutions, help our listeners understand why does this gap exist and persist even as enrollment has gone up and government spending on education has also grown?

So I mean, I think we should start with the, you know, what has been a bit of success, which is that access to education has improved dramatically.