Este libro es el tercero que se realiza en el marco de las actividades del Fondo de Investigaciones Educativas (FIE), un proyecto del Programa de Promoción de la Reforma Educativa en América Latina y el Cari-be (PREAL) que se desarrolló en asociación con el Global Development Network (GDN) y el…
El Banco Mundial difunde sus prioridades para la educación en América Latina y el Caribe a luz de los logros y desafíos actuales. Descargue el documento completo abajo.
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History tells us that economic crises cause large increases in poverty. The most recent economic crisis will cause Latin America’s GDP to contract around 2 percent in 2009.
More than a decade ago the authorities and specialists in the area of education took awareness of the fact that Latin America was very behind compared to the rest the world in terms of quality, efficiency and effectiveness of its primary education system . The rates of school graduates, as the degree of literacy of the workforce,…
This working paper summarizes the lessons of the coaching initiative in light of the experiences developed, with a double purpose: to rescue the usefulness this coaching may have as a strategy to strengthen institutional capacities in order to support the educational reform in Latin American countries; secondly, to account for the…
The need to achieve significant improvements in education has been a matter of concern for the Dominican society along the last two decades. This interest grew with the implementation of the Ten-Year Education Plan in the early 90s, a joint initiative with civil societies, the government and international organizations against…
Aun cuando en todo el mundo se reconoce hoy el papel clave que le corresponde a la educación y que es necesario mejorarla, con frecuencia no se aprueban ni implementan reformas educativas significativas, debido, fundamentalmente, a ciertos impedimentos políticos. No obstante, a partir de los años ’80, numerosos países de…
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