Travel with Annual Status of Education Report in Orissa

I spent the last two weeks of October traveling with the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), which mobilizes volunteers to test whether kids in rural India can read and do basic arithmetic. Every year, ASER reaches every rural district in India and tests over 700,000 children--truly a mammoth task!

One of the pieces I wrote about my experience with ASER was just published on the ASER blog, along with a poem one of the ASER staff members and I composed for fun.