The Missing Middle: Secondary Education for All – An Introductory Overview -- Secondary Education in India -- Push-out, Not Drop-out: Youth and Secondary Schooling in India -- Secondary education in Maharashtra: Issues of Concern -- Changing Public-Private Mix in School Education and its Implications for Policy -- Expanding Education Market and Parental Choice for Secondary Schools in India: Evidence from IHDS Data -- The Power Game: A Case Study of a Private School in Odisha.

This book offers a cutting-edge contribution on the importance of secondary education and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of its growth in India. Secondary education, long neglected, faces countless challenges and will require tremendous financial resources, millions of additional trained teachers, and vast infrastructure in terms of buildings, laboratories, libraries, ICT facilities, etc. The book examines these critical issues, with particular reference to the situation in India. It analyses the status quo of secondary education and discusses the strategies and approaches needed in order to universalize it. Including 20 chapters authored by eminent scholars in the field and from across the country, this book gathers the outcomes of a seminar organized by the Council for Social Development on Universalization of Secondary Education. The target audience includes policymakers, practitioners, administrators, education planners, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators with an interest in the future of secondary education.