Graduation Year
2016
Date of Submission
4-2016
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Government
Reader 1
William Ascher
Reader 2
Aseema Sinha
Rights Information
© 2016 Isabella R. Burch
Abstract
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act is India’s most recent national-level policy in pursuit of universalizing elementary education. While some states have been successful at increasing the number of students who attend school, reducing dropout rates, and reducing the rates of out of school children, others are still struggling to make progress. The states that are successful are surprising in some instances because they are not particularly wealthy, they have large rural populations, and some face larger socio-political issues. This thesis finds that the states succeeding in meeting RTE goals are not always the states that are the best at implementing RTE norms. States are often successful when they violate the RTE norms in order to suit their communities’ educational needs. States are also successful when they introduce child welfare policies outside of education in order to address external issues that prevent children from attending school.
Recommended Citation
Burch, Isabella, "Realizing the Right to Education: An Evaluation of Education Policy in Six States of India" (2016). CMC Senior Theses. 1363.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1363
