[MLE] Responses to the Right to Education Act in relation to Mother tongue
Dear MLE friends, That the "Right to Education Bill" came in to force last week made several authors publish about it. Since the line on the use of the mother-tongue is rather weak, not too many articles focussed on MLE. Still a few interesting quotes from different places: In a broader article on the act in the Indian Express Madhavi Kapur states the following: " Then there is the question of learning through the mother tongue. Educators have been crying themselves hoarse about the psychological, emotional and social implications of learning through a foreign language in the first five years of school. The aspirations of the