Students used rice sacks as 破麻袋當桌椅。makeshift chairs. The children in this school, in the state of Bihar, come from the poorest of families, 這些孩子來自最貧困的家庭those who could not afford to send away their young 負擔不起送私立學校讀書to private schools elsewhere, 絕大多數印度家庭只要有任何一點財產都會把孩子送讀私立學校as do most Indian families with any means
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Two teachers at the school 今天兩個老師都不來了were absent on this day, and one teacher’s aide 其中一個的助理had shown up more than an hour late, 來晚了一個小時with a crying baby 懷里還抱著一個哭娃娃in her arms. Many parents in this在這個大部分為穆斯林的村子里 largely Muslim village chose Islamic schools 許多父母把孩子送去because they were seen to offer伊斯蘭學校 better discipline因為那里能得到更好的紀律性.
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在新印度,教育成了不平等的明顯標志。The village school and its supplies, including textbooks, 村里的學校和設備供給,are often 包括課本都是破破爛爛的shabby. Education in the new India has become a crucial marker of inequality.
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When they get older, 他們長大了都會they’ll curse 詛咒他們的老師their teachers," said Arnab Ghosh,26歲的社會工作者阿爾納布 高史說26, a social worker trying to他試圖幫助政府改進 help the government improve its schools. 學校的情況"They’ll say, ’We came every day and we learned nothing.’ "“學生們會說,我們每天都來上學,一無所學”
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Education experts debate 針對教育失敗,教育專家莫衷一是the reasons for failure. Some say 有的說there is a lack of motivation among some teachers 老師們to pay special attention 對底層窮孩子的關心to poor children from缺乏動機 lower castes.
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Others blame longstanding 其他人則抨擊neglect and insufficient public financing 政府忽視長期的公共財政的不足和責任and accountability.
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1、Arguments aside, 拋開爭議India is today 今日印度engaged in an epic experiment 進行著前所未有的提升學校質量的實驗to uplift its schools.
2、A teacher watched 一位女教師as her students 密切監視著數學測驗的學生took a math quiz. Among 根據政府的數據the poorest 20 percent of Indian men在印度的最貧窮的男子中, half are 一半為文盲illiterate, and barely 2 percent graduate from只有百分之二高中畢業 high school, according to government data.
3、With little supervision, 很少的監督students in Lahtora 拉赫濤拉的學生們sat crowded together, not learning 擠坐一團much.根本學不到啥東西 Some experts point out that children of illiterate parents are less likely to get help at home; a recent survey shows that the child of a literate woman performs better at school.