Teaching No Lesson: The Great Indian Education Crisis
Tanisha Saxena | 28 June 2026 | The New Indian Express
At a government primary school in rural Bihar, a single teacher handles five classrooms. In one corner of one of the classrooms, seven-year-olds struggle to read simple sentences. Older children wait for help with mathematics. The teacher moves from group to group, attempting the impossible. By lunchtime, exhaustion has replaced enthusiasm. By the end of the year, many students will be promoted to the next grade despite never mastering the basics. In 2024, the Annual Status of Education Report that evaluates rural children’s schooling and learning levels states 76.6 per cent of Class III students could not read text across 19 languages at their grade level….