Many of India's Children Can't Add, Can't Read, Reveals Report | Read

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About 25 per cent of India's children in class 8 cannot read text prescribed for class 2, and math remains a serious challenge across classes, a school education report says. The report on the status of education in 2014 by ASER, an NGO, says basic reading levels in India are disheartening and largely unchanged from five years ago.

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