Educating India
Nearly 40% of India’s citizens are aged 13-35 – the largest youth population in the world – and by some estimates, almost 25% of the global workforce will be Indian by 2025. But India is doing a remarkably poor job of giving India’s young people the skills and opportunities that they need.
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NEW DELHI – Three years ago, as I walked through the densely populated slums of Mumbai toward my new teaching job at a low-income school, India’s extreme educational inequities were starkly on display. Muddy water flowed alongside ramshackle homes, and the stench of garbage was overpowering. When I reached the dilapidated school building, students were trickling in for the day in their tattered uniforms. My dim, musty classroom was cluttered with old cupboards and creaking benches, leaving little room for the students themselves.