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

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dc.contributor.authorRamachandran, Vimala
dc.contributor.authorBéteille, Tara
dc.contributor.authorLinden, Toby
dc.contributor.authorDey, Sangeeta
dc.contributor.authorGoyal, Sangeeta
dc.contributor.authorGoel Chatterjee, Prerna
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-01T18:37:27Z
dc.date.available2017-11-01T18:37:27Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIndia'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 look at the complexity of the teacher management landscape in elementary and secondary schools in nine Indian states. On a daily basis, the administrative machinery of these states has to manage between 19,000 to nearly a million teachers in different types of schools and employment contracts, and cope with recruiting thousands more and distributing them equitably across schools. This report examines the following issues: official requirements for becoming a schoolteacher in India; policies and processes for teacher recruitment, deployment and transfers; salaries and benefits of teachers; professional growth of teachers; and grievance redress mechanisms for teachers. For the first time in India, this report compares and contrasts stated policy with actual practice in teacher management in the country, using a combination of primary and secondary data. In so doing, the report reveals the hidden challenges and the nature of problems faced by administrators in attempting to build an effective teacher workforce which serves the needs of all of India's 200 million school children. The report examines states with varying characteristics, thus generating knowledge and evidence likely to be of interest to policy makers and practitioners in a wide range of contexts.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/978-1-4648-0987-3
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4648-0987-3
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/28618
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Studies;
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectRECRUITMENT
dc.subjectTRANSFER
dc.subjectTEACHERS
dc.subjectMANAGEMENT
dc.subjectSALARIES
dc.subjectCOURTS
dc.subjectPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectCONTRACT TEACHERS
dc.subjectPOLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subjectELEMENTARY SCHOOL
dc.subjectSECONDARY SCHOOL
dc.subjectDEPLOYMENT
dc.titleGetting the Right Teachers into the Right Schoolsen
dc.title.subtitleManaging India's Teacher Workforceen
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okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.region.countryIndia
okr.topicEducation::Education For All
okr.topicEducation::Education Reform and Management
okr.topicEducation::Educational Policy and Planning
okr.topicEducation::Effective Schools and Teachers
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Skills Development and Labor Force Training
okr.topicEducation::Secondary Education
okr.topicEducation::Primary Education
okr.unitGEDDR
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