Back to basics: Teaching life skills, not just job skills
(WorldNews Business)

By Priti Adani Improving the standards of basic education is the need of the hour-it is the foundation on which the future of India`s children will depend. However, despite a steady growth in literacy rates, our education standards lag woefully due to policy changes. Findings from the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) in 2018 show that half of Indian schoolchildren lack the basic ability to read complete sentences not just from their own level but even those three levels below. What`s worse, less than one-third can do basic arithmetic. It`s unfortunate basic reading and...