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Madhukar Banuri and Aashima Jain, in their essay, share three principles for creating effective collaborations with the government. These include understanding governmental structures, avoiding the creation of parallel systems, and adopting an empathetic approach toward government officials.

In her piece in the “Insights” section, Vidhya Meenambal M. facilitates the emergence of voices of people in the education space, which alert us to current practices and challenges in school leadership

Geetika Arora and Prerna Kalra, in the essay “Deconstructing the system,” share their learnings regarding the challenges of working with governments in three states, and the ways in which they have been adapting their approach through iterative processes.

In “A string of failures: roadblocks, struggles and politics,” Arvind Sardana takes off where Hardy stops, with respect to the history of HSTP/Eklavya. He shows us the enormous challenges involved in working with the public education system, and what it takes to fail when the goal is its complete transformation toward equity and effective learning.