How To Motivate 60 Million Teachers
The nonprofit group STIR Education sees the existing teacher force as the solution, not the obstacle, to improving learning in the developing world.
"I was talking to a secondary teacher in Uganda," Sharath Jeevan tells me when I ask about his organization's impact. "I asked her: What's the biggest change you've seen in two months? She said, 'I stopped beating my [students]. I know now how to engage kids in a much more constructive, positive way.' "
Jeevan is the founder and CEO
