West Bengal has been slipping and sliding down the school education ladder for some time. That is a comment on the state of India’s school education as a whole, which was revealed alarmingly by the 2018 Annual Status of Education Report on school education by Pratham. In the PGI report, the five heads for assessment are learning outcomes and quality, access, infrastructure and facilities, equity, and governance processes. These results are truly painful in the context of an education scene that is frighteningly dark. If such is the reality, how are increasingly larger numbers of school-leaving children being awarded over 90 per cent marks each succeeding year?

Source: The Telegraph May 17, 2019 03:45 UTC