Event details
Monday, April 28th 2025
10:00 AM—11:00 AM
| Location | Virtual |
| Available to | Faculty / Staff, Alumni / Friends, General Public, Students |
Rukmini Banerji, CEO at Pratham Education Foundation, will speak about the interventions Pratham employs to address gaps in India’s education system and equip students with essential skills for their futures.
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Pratham Education Foundation is an innovative learning organization created to improve the quality of education in India. As one of the largest non-governmental organizations in the country, Pratham focuses on high-quality, low-cost, and replicable interventions to address gaps in the education system, equipping children with strong literacy and numeracy skills for their futures.
Rukmini Banerji, CEO at Pratham, will give a lecture providing an overview of Pratham, their approach to community involvement, early childhood and the use of technology. This event will be moderated by Philip Fisher, Director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, and the Diana Chen Professor of Early Childhood Learning in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford.
Please register for the webinar in advance at the RSVP link. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.