{"id":1643,"date":"2011-01-30T23:52:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T04:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2011-01-30T23:52:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T04:52:46","slug":"off-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2011\/01\/30\/off-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"india\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topnews.in\/files\/India_flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am heading off to India tomorrow and will be gone for approximately two weeks. The main reason for this trip is to attend the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etma-india.org\/iept2011\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">International Conference on Indian Education: The Positive Turmoil<\/a> in New Delhi. I am scheduled to present and act as a resource person for a\u00a0<strong>Round Table on Reforms in Teacher Education. <\/strong>I think this will be an extremely interesting conference and I look forward to learning a lot, as well as getting to meet some interesting people.<\/p>\n<p>I will also be going to \u00a0Bangalore to meet with people at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/azimpremjifoundation.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Azim Premji Foundation<\/a> (I had blogged about a recent visit by the CEO\u2019s the Foundation\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2010\/11\/28\/education-in-india-the-role-of-the-azim-premji-foundation\/\">here<\/a>, and you can find out more about what they do\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/news\/enter-the-education-professionals\/735229\/0\" target=\"_blank\">in this news story<\/a>). We are putting the final touches on a collaboration between the College of Education at Michigan State with the upcoming Azim Premji University. This is an exciting new initiative for the Foundation and I am glad that we (here at MSU) can be a part of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am heading off to India tomorrow and will be gone for approximately two weeks. The main reason for this trip is to attend the\u00a0International Conference on Indian Education: The Positive Turmoil in New Delhi. I am scheduled to present and act as a resource person for a\u00a0Round Table on Reforms in Teacher Education. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22,28,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}