NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 14, 2011: Primary school students have slipped over the past year in math, a subject for which Indian brains are tapped globally in research and technology firms, one of the country’s most credible non-government surveys of the nation’s rural schooling system has found.
The decline in mathematics and in the ability to perform routine calculations expected of students in primary school coincides with an increase in teacher absenteeism, according to the Annual Status of Education Report, 2010 released today.