Bangladesh, March 15 -- Education is a crucial sector in any nation. Being a major investment in human capital development, it plays the critical role in long-term productivity and growth at both micro and macro levels. This explains why the state of education in Bangladesh continues to be our national discourse at all levels. It is also important to realise that discussions on education and its reforms to make it contribute meaningfully to national development should gradually and systematically move away from a politicised to a more analytical approach for revamping the educational system. The book 'Education and National Development - Selected Papers from the 2008 and 2009 Conferences on Bangladesh at Harvard University' brings together ...