Getting the Right Teachers Into the Right Schools: Managing India's Teacher Workforce

by Vimala Ramachandran, Prerna Goel Chatterjee, Sangeeta Goyal, et al.

India's landmark Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (2009) guarantees education to all children aged 6-14 years. The Act mandates specific student-teacher ratios and emphasizes teacher quality. Writing this into legislation took seven years, but the seven years since has proven that ensuring effective teachers are recruited and placed in all schools in a time-bound manner is considerably more challenging. This report takes a detailed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464809879
• ISBN13: 9781464809873
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"