No homework for students of classes 1 and 2 and prescribed weight limit of school bags for each class are part of the fresh directives issued by the HRD ministry to states and union territories across ...

Children are neither weightlifters nor school bags loaded containers, the Madras high court said on Tuesday, as it asked the Centre to instruct state governments to reduce weight of satchels of school ...

To reduce kids’ school bag weight, the Centre has urged the states and UTs to ensure that there is no homework given for students of Classes 1 and 2. The Government issues new guidelines to reduce ...

Keeping in mind the recommendations made by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), the Madras High Court has asked the Centre to make sure that no school gives homework to ...

The Union human resource development ministry has asked states and Union territories to ensure that the weight of school bags follow set norms and also that kids in classes 1 and 2 do not have ...

For nearly 20 years, high school chemistry teacher Jonathan Bergmann would teach a lesson in class, help students after school and give them standard homework assignments. He was good enough to win a ...