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Press & media kit
Everything you need to cover the Lab accurately, plus a named contact for interviews and campus access.
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Event photography
Hi-res images from previous convenings at the CMS campus.
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Consent-cleared images of ALfA paired learning in government schools.
Request fileFact sheet (PDF)
Dates, venue, expected delegations, and the headline evidence in one page.
Request fileBoilerplate — About Dignity Education
Dignity Education Vision International is an Indian nonprofit working to end learning poverty. It developed ALfA (Accelerating Learning for All), a paired-learning pedagogy now used in more than 30,000 government schools across 12 countries at roughly $4 per child, with randomised-trial validation published by Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2023.
Boilerplate — About the Global Learning Lab 2027
The Global Learning Lab 2027 is a three-day international summit on foundational literacy and numeracy, held 8–10 February 2027 at City Montessori School in Lucknow, India. It convenes education ministers, researchers, NGOs and funders around the theme “Policy is in Place. Now Pedagogy.”
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Press & media coverage
Broadcast features, newspaper coverage and recorded interviews on the literacy movement behind the Lab.
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ADEA Podcast
Hear Dignity Education Founder Dr Sunita Gandhi's take on the global learning crisis and how to accelerate learning for all, with a special focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, in this exclusive interview with the Association for the Development of
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Smart Classrooms Launched Across 40 Government Schools in Uttar Pradesh
In collaboration with SBI SG Securities, the smart TVs were installed in classrooms of 40 government schools across the districts of Ayodhya, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, and Varanasi.
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Hi PATH App: A Revolutionary Shift in Student Assessments and Teacher Empowerment
The tool leverages Optical Mark Recognition and provides real-time insights, aiding personalized teaching. Coinciding with the PATH Movement launch, it aligns with India's NEP 2020 and SDG 4 educational reforms.
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Building Social-emotional Learning as the New Literacy
Integrating SEL into classrooms fosters empathy, resilience and confidence. This shift prepares children to be strong, empathetic and emotionally intelligent human beings for the future.
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Is Literacy Linked to Better Mental Health in Women?
A pilot study being conducted by Dignity Education in collaboration with the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, explores whether basic literacy significantly improves mental well-being, emotional resilience, and self-wor
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Nexus of Good
Global Dream. Article by former school education & literacy secretary of India, on Dr Gandhi’s disruptive literacy approach.
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'Learn to Read, Write in 30 Hours': Ex-World Bank Economist's Inverted Teaching Helps 5 lakh Rural Kids
Kids as young as six or seven are able to read newspapers fluently in just 30 days.
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The Good Sight Magazine Articles on ALfA
Set of articles on ALfA in a leading social cause magazine
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Media Coverage
Collection of articles on Dr Gandhi’s literacy work in the mainstream media.
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Educationist in Lucknow making poor kids literate in 30 hours, Times of India, 2020
The project is volunteer-driven, based on a simple principle – ask children what they know and build on it.
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Educationist and innovator Dr Sunita Gandhi develops new pedagogy
Travelling from Lucknow to India’s capital, a surprise squadron of Kindergarten to Grade 2 students addressed a press conference at the Press Club of India.
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Free Education Initiative Global Dream Shaala Launches In Uttar Pradesh
The event, marking the collaboration between Dignity Education and SBI Life, will be inaugurated by Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Dr Dinesh Sharma and Lucknow’s first-ever female Mayor, Sanyukta Bhatia.
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Educationist Provides Free Lessons To Out-of-School Children, Adults
Dr Sunita Gandhi provides free classes for out-of-school children in Uttar Pradesh. She aims to replicate the learning model in other parts of the country.
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30 Hours to Literacy
Spending an hour every day on activities and custom-made lessons in a cheerful environment helps migrant workers of all ages come out of literacy poverty.
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Dignity Education Lucknow showcases its FLN methodology at Delhi conclave
Dignity Education has come up with the Accelerating Learning for All methodology, which gets students reading newspapers within 90 days.
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World’s Changemakers Gather at D-Talks to Discuss the Solutions for Pressing Literacy Issues
Global Dream literacy initiative launched by Dr Sunita Gandhi, is launching a one-of-a-kind platform for disruptive change in literacy and education.
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Dr. Sunita Gandhi, ‘Edumonk from Lucknow’, begins the Name Literacy Challenge this International Women’s Day
Dr. Sunita Gandhi the ‘Edumonk from Lucknow’ will begin the NAME LITERACY CHALLENGE as part of her Global Dreamshaala program this International Women’s Day
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Indian Educationist Launches Literacy Program for Out-of-School Children, Adults
Global Dream Shaala, an initiative for providing free education for out of school children and adults, launched earlier this week on Human Rights Day.
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Conversation with Dr. Sunita Gandhi, President, Dignity Education Vision International (Dignity Education)
Sunita has been recognized as Educator of the Year 2015 by the India Book of Records and has been felicitated by the Government as a 'Visionary of Uttar Pradesh'.
DetailsThis physicist, former World Bank economist, and educationist is helping the illiterate become literate in a month
Dr Sunita Gandhi is a visionary educationist whose teaching methods and assessments being adopted by over 1,000 schools in India and abroad including the UK and Iceland.
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The Good Sight September 2024
Reshaping Foundational Learning for Better Knowledge Through ALfA
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The Good Sight August 2024
Transforming Education for 21st Century Learners
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The Good Sight March 2025
45 Days to Literacy by Flipping the Script
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