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Teach For India

Executive Summary:

Every child is born with the hope that god is not yet disappointed with man.
-Rabindranath Tagore

Social and cultural revolution has been possible only in a system where quality of educational opportunity is provided and education is deliberately used to develop more and more potential talent and to harness it to the solution of the national problem.
The 1986/92 education policy admits that education was at the crossroads and it needed to change the direction of where it was going. Neither normal expansion nor existing pace and nature of improvement can address the need of the situation. (Para 1.9).The Teach for India foundation is an initiative to alleviate this national ill of educational disparity by the Teach for India program.
This program would be a two year internship open to all Indian nationals who have had graduation level education. Apart from having an inclusive work culture involving NGO's, corporate and the government, building prestige and credibility around the program would thus be central to achieving its objective.
Teach for India is not meant to be a perfunctory exercise whose scope is limited to getting making people "literate". It is meant to involve the most talented youth in the country in an effort to usher in a wave of excellence in school education so that an entire generation is empowered to actualize its potential in the best possible way. But then, you have to be the best to attract the best. And this motto of excellence will be the driving force behind all its endeavors.



Case Analysis:

Scope of the project:

• Case Introduction

The dichotomy of Indian education has only deepened the divisive wedge which separates the have's from the have not's. Teach for India is an initiative to promote educational parity and in the process create thinking leaders. This movement has been successfully launched and implemented in the US and UK, but while implementing this program in India we must...