Advocate Peesh Chopra

 Walk into any education conference these days, and you’ll hear the same buzz: “global platforms,” “scalable AI,” “next-gen learning.” But here’s a thought — what if India’s biggest EdTech opportunity isn’t in scaling globally, but in going local ? The Middle We Often Miss India’s education landscape isn’t binary — it’s not just elite urban schools on one end and government schools on the other. Between them lies what I call the missing middle — the thousands of affordable private schools, semi-urban institutions, and community-run setups that teach millions of children every day. This “middle” doesn’t have fancy tech budgets, but it has something far more valuable: aspiration . These schools are eager to innovate, but they need tools built for their realities, not imported models designed for different contexts. Why Global Doesn’t Always Mean Better Many global EdTech platforms are designed for high-speed internet, personal devices, and small classroom sizes — a luxury in mu...