Young Indian children study in the shade of a tree at their government-run school on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Thursday, April 9, 2015. According to the UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2015, two out of three countries where lower secondary education was not compulsory in 2000 had changed their legislation by 2012, including India, Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan. According to the report, rural India saw substantial improvement in nearly all aspects of school facilities and infrastructure between 2003 and 2010.
Channi Anand Associated Press