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In India, can schools offer path out of poverty?
- 05-17-2010
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By Nishant Dahiya/NPR
India recently passed a law providing children with the right to free education. But public schools are inadequate and child labor remains common. As a result, many parents turn to better-equipped -- but costly -- private schools. On the Grand Trunk Road that crosses South Asia, NPR explores the plight of young people in this series. India has some stellar educational institutions. The government-supported Indian Institutes of Technology churn out thousands of world-class engineers every year. The fields of medicine and business have similar elite colleges. Hundreds of thousands more young men and women graduate from colleges and universities just a rung or two below in terms of excellence. Yet as students toil in classrooms and coaching centers, desperate to get into these elite institutes, even larger numbers of Indian youths barely get a start. (more...)
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