Families who have opted for online school are hoping it will help kids transition to offline school better. But when it comes to learning, there isn't much happening.

Visiting a slum school for the first time, a group of Class XII students from a prominent institution were astonished to see kids, much younger to them, learning a new ABCD of life.

After 2010, learning levels in government schools plummeted to a low of 41.1% in 2013, recovering slightly to 42.2% in 2014, while those in private schools remained more or less steady — 63.3% ...