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EDUCATION SECTOR Making sense, nonsense of ‘decline hypothesis’
by Mahmudul H Sumon THE post-1/11 Awami League government undertook several educational reforms during its valid and invalid tenures. In its earlier phases, at the primary and secondary levels, it declared that the days of ‘rote’ learning were over, and that it would be replaced by an era of what they called ‘acquisition, learning and retrieval.’ It boasted of its achievements in the education sector by highlighting increased pass rates, new curricula and the introduction of
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