India's education rate is booming. Maybe knowing English has something to do with this and might help explain the recent economic success in India.
The best people in India get a decent education. Besides the Indian Institutes of Technology and the India Institutes of Management, there are about 20 other schools and institutions for science, engineering, medicine and liberal arts. Both parents and students are 100% dedicated and night after night, middle-class Indian parents insist on their children to do homework. By 15, the children are packed off to coaching schools to help them prepare for entry into the highly competitive colleges.
What is changing is access to good, quality education, which is rare in government-run schools. A national study by Harvard University found that 1 out of 4 teachers in state-run primary schools is absent in a typical day, and the ones that do show up, about half of those do not teach. Private schools however, are teaching very well. There are privaste schools for the rich and for the poor. Private schools for the poor cost between $1-$3 per month and are spreading very rapidly in the slums of India.
Even though teacher salaries tend to be 2/3 lower than those on average, the students math score were 22% higher than those in public schools. And 16% of students in private schools scored 10 points higher on their reading and math scores. If they continue raising the quality of education, India could be even better position for the knowledge economy.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11571960/site/newsweek/
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