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NCERT's Curriculum Frameworks and New Textbooks
NCERT's two curriculum frameworks, one for the Foundational Stage and one for school education as a whole, turn the National Education Policy 2020 into stage-wise goals, syllabi and textbooks. New books for Grades 1 to 9 are out, and on 1 September 2026 the Education Minister said the Class 10 to 12 set is being written in mission mode.
Last updated 2 November 20264 min read
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Gives NCERT's curriculum rewrite its own card: the two frameworks, how they were built, who writes the books and what is still pending, which earlier sat on the RTE card.
- NCERT
- NCF-SE 2023
- NCF-FS 2022
- NEP 2020
- Jaadui Pitara
- NSTC
- new textbooks
- curriculum framework
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