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Explained: Why Delhi's school reforms are not yet a runaway success

Dual control exercised by two divergent govts is one of the main reasons holding the effort back

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For the first time, Delhi government schools recorded a higher pass percentage (98 per cent) than private schools (92 per cent) in the Class 12 CBSE board exams in 2019

Anjuli Bhargava New Delhi
If the parts are faulty, can one churn out a perfect end product? That’s the crux of why the Delhi school reforms undertaken by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government are not an unqualified success.

To understand this, first we need to appreciate everything Delhi has managed to get right. A recent study by consultancy firm BCG has found that perhaps the biggest reform pulled off by AAP is the sea change in the mindset of the most important resource in the city's government schools: Teachers and the headmaster. 

Teachers have been made to feel human and are being treated