Requirements For Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators For Elementary And Secondary Schools, Eighty Third Edition, 2018–2019

India's landmark Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (2009) guarantees education to all children ages 6 14 years. The act mandates specific student-teacher ratios and emphasizes teacher quality. Writing this into legislation took seven years, but the years since have proven that ensuring effective teachers are recruited and placed in all schools in a time-bound manner is considerably more challenging.