Climate Change is a Health Crisis. And, Student-Doctors Are Not Feeling Prepared.

May ‘20—The health of every child born today will be affected by climate change. But the subject is missing from medical school curriculum. Why? This enterprise journalism story reported from and about the U.S. has some answers. Co-published by the Huffington Post and the Hechinger Report as part of a nine-part series titled “Are we ready? How schools (in America) are preparing and not preparing children for climate change.”

Caste-based discrimination drives India’s students to drop out

Apr. ‘14— Roughly half of all Indian public-school students drop out before eighth grade. Most students who drop out are from lower-caste, Muslim or tribal communities. Experiences of some students reflects a significant obstacle in improving social mobility in India—caste-based discrimination in schools.

Support Family or Go to School? Burmese Refugee Teen Juggles Competing Demands

July ‘18— Many refugees students arriving at the heels of high school in the U.S. face financial pressures, and familial and cultural obligations. These put them at the brink of dropping out of school. Using research and field reporting, I found that dropping out of school is a common trend among male refugee students who frequently quit school to work full-time. This trend is recurrent among Burmese refugee students who struggle with mastering English and show learning outcomes that are poorer than their peers in other groups.

For three-quarters of his school year, I spent time with Salamat Khan, a Burmese refugee resettled in the Greater Chicago area, to take readers into the unspoken realities of students like him.

When India Said Poor English Won’t Count on its Prestigious Civil Services Exam

Aug. ‘14— Dissenting students demanded that the format of the examination be tweaked to allow those that didn't have access to English-language schooling to have a better chance at passing. Their voices were seminal in an education culture that continues to pride itself on English-language instruction and learning in many urban and peri-urban schools in India.

America Knows How to Provide Good Child Care. It Just Doesn’t Insist on it.

Nov. ‘17—A survey of all 50 American states shows that most fall behind when enforcing standards of child care for infants and toddlers. Can regulation help?

Why India’s IITs Do Badly on Global Rankings

The Indian engineering schools have produced some stellar graduates—Google’s Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, to only a couple.

Still, why do these schools do so badly on global rankings.