Boarding Schools for India’s Outcasts Are Tearing Down Class Barriers
R.S. Praveen Kumar, who runs schools for 200,000 poor kids from the lowest castes, is proving that educational success can trump poverty.
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Following a successful career as a regional police chief and a stint at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Kumar began a second act as head of India’s Telangana state residential schools for students from the lowest castes. He’s now the Secretary of Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society. His mission: to teach 200,000 marginalized kids that they can excel.
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