Introduction to

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Educational inequity is a pervasive problem.
Just 16 percent of children who are eligible for free school meals in the
U.K. attend university, in comparison to 96 percent of children educated in independent schools
In Brazil, the poorest children have on average 7 fewer years of schooling than their wealthier counterparts
In Peru, children in the poorest
20 percent of households receive
5 fewer years of education than children from the wealthiest

Socioeconomic background predicts educational outcomes.

In India, there is a 40 percent gap in secondary enrollment rates between children from the highest and lowest expenditure quintile groups
In Ghana, children from the highest household wealth quintile have almost twice as many average years of schooling as those from the lowest, and even the highest quintile is four years less than the U.S. average
In New Zealand, children from lowincome households are half as likely to achieve university entrance standard as those from high-income households

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Transformational teachers show us we can solve it.
Gaurav Singh, Teach For India

Gaurav Singh left a successful career at Accenture to join Teach for India’s inaugural cohort of teaching fellows.
Assigned to teach 50 second graders
(ranging in age from 6-14,) all of whom were significantly behind grade level, Gaurav quickly decided that he needed a huge and visible goal for his class. He decided on “4” —students would grow to four times their current level in the school year. He tracked his students obsessively — updating data in class using a smart phone, tweaking his plan to remediate students, and always keeping an eye on his big goal: 4.
Within a year, most of Gaurav’s students met this goal, doubling, tripling and even quadrupling their key academic scores.

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Transformational schools show us that success is both scalable and sustainable.
KIPP