Recent Events

07/07/2010 FEPADE and PREAL co-organize workshop on teacher effectiveness and evaluation

06/24/2010 PREAL best practices database documents increasing role of private sector in education in Latin America 

06/09/2010 Report Card Program Coordinator Tamara Ortega Goodspeed calls for concrete action to address challenges

05/28/2010 Co-director Jeffrey Puryear discusses the quality of education in Colombia and Latin America with Dinero (Colombia)

04/22/2010 World Bank interviews co-director Jeffrey Puryear about leveraging the private sector for education

Recent Publications

*All publications are in Spanish unless otherwise noted.

07/2010 Education Synopsis No. 27, Seis lecciones internacionales sobre estándares nacionales

06/2010 Best Practices No. 34, Liderazgo distribuido en el campo educativo: pasando del concepto a la práctica 

03/2010 Working Paper No. 46, Evaluación Docente: prácticas vigentes en los países OCDE y una revisión de la literatura

03/2010 Saindo da Inércia?: Boletim da Educação no Brasil, 2009 (Portuguese)

02/2010 PREAL 2009 Program Report (English)           

12/2009 ¿Cuánto están aprendiendo los niños en América Latina? Datos destacados del Segundo Estudio Regional Comparativo y Explicativo (SERCE)

OVERVIEW

The Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas (PREAL) was established by the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC and the Corporation for Development Research (CINDE) in Santiago, Chile in 1995 to build a new constituency for education reform. It has become the strongest private voice on education in Latin America.

PREAL seeks to improve the quality and equity of education by helping public and private sector organizations throughout the hemisphere promote informed debate on education policy, identify and disseminate best practices, and monitor progress toward improvement. PREAL encourages business and civil society to work with governments in common efforts to improve education, and strengthens their capacity to do so. PREAL pursues this goal through three objectives:

1. Involve civil society in education reform;
2. Monitor progress toward improving education; and
3. Enrich the thinking of decision-makers and opinion leaders on education policy.

Activities

PREAL works directly with national experts and policy institutions to achieve its goals. It has developed an extensive set of programs that include:

• Education report cards that establish benchmarks and monitor education progress at the regional, national and local levels in a concise, easy-to-understand format.
• Partnerships with national centers to promote informed debate on education policy, identify and disseminate best practices, and monitor progress toward improvement.
• Business-education partnerships that get business leaders actively involved in promoting education reform and providing direct financial support to education projects.
• A program on Central America that supports and strengthens civil society organizations working to improve the coverage, quality, equity, and efficiency of education systems in Central America.
• Conferences and seminars that bring leading figures in education policy to share insights and recommendations with Latin American audiences.
• A best practices program that identifies and disseminates information on policies and programs that have demonstrated their ability to improve the quality, equity, and/or efficiency of education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Cross-national networks of specialists working to develop policy recommendations on an array of issues.
• A website that makes all PREAL documents instantly available for downloading, and provides links to a broad set of websites of interest to education reformers.
• Publications that bring carefully selected policy analysis and best practices to the attention of policy-makers and opinion leaders. 
  NOTE: Publications are also available for download here.