Indian educator wins US$1 million Global Teacher Prize for transforming girls’ lives

This year’s Global Teacher Prize has been awarded to Ranjitsinh Disale for his work helping girls, most of them from poor tribal communities, at a village school in western India.Disale immediately announced he would share half the US$1 million prize money with the nine other finalists.He was selected from 12,000 nominations from over 140 countries around the world, and was honoured for having “transformed the life chances” of girls at the Zilla Parishad Primary School in Paritewadi, in…

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