Failing Grade
The goal of education is to promote learning. Sitting in classrooms is a weak proxy for knowing how to read, do math, and apply science. Latin America needs to worry less about schooling and more about learning.
The goal of education is to promote learning. Sitting in classrooms is a weak proxy for knowing how to read, do math, and apply science. Latin America needs to worry less about schooling and more about learning.
Education is fundamental for economic, social, and cultural development.
The implementation of Mexico’s landmark education reform has not been without difficulties and conflicts.
In 2009, some countries in Latin America and the Caribbean improved their PISA performance, but all ranked in the bottom third in all subjects tested.
Las pruebas de aprendizaje en América Latina muestran resultados preocupantes. ¿Cuáles son los principales retos que debe enfrentar la región para revertirlos?
Con dos nuevos proyectos inició PREAL sus actividades en el año 2001. Uno de ellos es el programa «Educación privada en América Latina: al servicio de las metas nacionales para el desarrollo de recursos humanos.» Su objetivo es, por una parte, identificar formas que ayudan a asegurar que la educación…
Líderes en todos los ámbitos del sistema educativo están desarrollando estándares para especificar aquéllo que los estudiantes deben saber y ser capaces de hacer en las principales áreas de contenidos. Los grupos locales y estatales, las organizaciones profesionales, y los consorcios de estados y distritos están diseñando estándares. Descargue…
Los esfuerzos por reformar los colegios norteamericanos no son precisamente una novedad. Cuando en 1957 la Unión Soviética envió al Sputnik alrededor del globo terrestre, el Congreso Norteamericano dirigió su mirada a las escuelas para recobrar lo que creíamos tener: el liderazgo en el espacio. El movimiento de reforma currícular…
Haiti is not only the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, it is also the least educated. Roughly half the population is illiterate. Only two-thirds of children who begin primary school complete it.
Los estados de todo el país están estableciendo estándares nuevos y exigentes que definen qué es lo que los estudiantes deben saber y qué es lo que deben ser capaces de hacer. Muchos estados están también diseñando e implementando nuevos sistemas de evaluación, con el fin de ayudar a los…
The education law and the various decennial and operation plans of education have specifically presented a policy of education participation, where the community, families and organizations non-governmental are stimulated to integrate in the development of education programs and projects.
CIEPLAN, one of Chile’s (and Latin America’s) leading think tanks, celebrated its 40th anniversary on November 7th in Santiago
This is the third Report Card on Education that is produced in Peru. In that sense, this gives us the possibility- as long as the data allow us- to make comparisons over time. It is important to recognize that the results of the first report card, published in 2004, we…
Since its creation in 1995, the Program for Education Reform Promotion in Latin America and the Caribbean (Programa de Promoción de la Reforma Educativa en América Latina y el Caribe (PREAL) has proposed to contribute to the improvement of quality and equity in education through the enhancement of education policies,…
Despite the improvement in enrollment rates, Honduras is still behind in relation to the implementation of reforms that substantially improve the quality, efficiency and equity of education. The obstacles are many, including the education system internal factors such as lack of sufficient resources, political will, power transfer in the management…