Teach For India ( TFI ) is a non-profit organisation that is a part of the Teach For All network. [1] The Fellowship recruits college graduates and working professionals to serve as full-time teachers in low-income schools for two years. [2] Teach For India is striving to end the problem of educational inequity in India and provide an excellent education to all children. [
India's education crisis [ edit ] India has made strides in primary school enrollment but despite an initially high rate of enrollment, drop-out rates are very high. India continues to have 2.27 million children out of school. In India today, 4% of all children never start school, 58% don’t complete primary schools, 90% don’t complete secondary school, and only 10% of children go on to college [ citation needed ] . A number of reasons have been attributed for this situation, but the most popularly accepted reason is the quality of education in schools. [ citation needed ] 17% of teachers are absent from classrooms every day. [4] India is currently facing one of the worst educational crises in the world. There are approximately 400 million children under the age of 14 [4] with 12 million young adults joining the workforce every year. However, 52% of grade 5 children cannot read a grade 2 text. [4] 32% of grade 2 children cannot recognize numbers and 50% ...