Can children in rural India read?

The 2007 ASER reportss that while many children in rural India can now attend school, the reading level of the children remains low. This likely is because teaching is so poor in these schools.

The report indicates that:

Forty percent of the children in Standard (grade) one cannot recognize letters of the alphabet.

Fifty percent of the children in Standard (grade) three cannot read at a grade one level.

Sixty percent of the children in Standard (grade) five cannot read at a grade two level.