A secondary school teacher from Dahanu has set the national record for framing the ‘maximum sentences using minimum words’ in English language. Balasaheb Chavan, 37, framed 50 lakh sentences using only 170 words while creating teaching techniques to help his vernacular-medium students understand and retain the language. The teacher was granted recognition by the India Book of Records recently. Chavan said the project started in 2010 when, as a […]

An Indian teacher who runs a not-for-profit school in Mumbai for girls from the city’s red light areas was on Wednesday named in the top 10 short-list for a global prize for teachers. Robin Chaurasiya, founder of Kranti, will compete with teachers from the UK, US, Nairobi, Palestine, Japan, Finland, Australia and Pakistan to win the $ 1-million Global Teacher Prize 2016. “There was a teacher behind every great artist, […]