Bangladesh, March 22 -- Starting on March 13 last the Primary Education Week 2019 concluded on March 19. Such observance follows a ritualistic pattern but this time something more was expected. The expectation issues from the fact that the World Bank's World Development Report focused on education for the first time as a central theme under the heading Learning to Realise Education's Promise. More importantly, the report is critical of the world's failure to provide children with proper education. It underscores that societies fail children the most where they most need good education.
Primary schooling spanning roughly for 11 years here has been brought under the scanner and the observation is rather scathing. In 11 years children in this...