This UP school shows how remedial classes can end India's education crisis

One of the reasons why remedial classes are successful is because the teacher is equipped to teach students of different grade levels in one single class

It is 4:30 p.m. and school is over for the day. Yet, some 25 children sit in groups in a classroom in an arid, drought-prone southwestern corner of India’s most-populous state. In one of the groups, a child is forming words from a jumble of Hindi letters written on bits of chart paper. In another, children are reading out sentences written on coloured strips of paper.

“Nal itna baha, itna baha, ki weh le gaya bus, cup aur mala,” (The tap flowed, it flowed so much that it took with it a bus, a cup and a necklace)