How Has Youth Unemployment Affected Latin America?
Is there a direct correlation between youth unemployment and the social unrest? What accounts for such high levels of youth unemployment and what effect has it had on the region?
Qué nos dicen los actuales hallazgos de la investigación sobre cómo mejorar los aprendizajes de los estudiantes? ¿Cuántas decisiones y reformas educativas están basadas realmente en resultados de estas investigaciones? Estas fueron dos preguntas centrales que motivaron el Foro Global de Políticas sobre el Aprendizaje, que el 4 y 5 de julio reunió en Hong Kong a una quincena de líderes de política educativa e investigadores sobre educación, y donde PREAL estuvo representado por su codirectora Marcela Gajardo.
Is there a direct correlation between youth unemployment and the social unrest? What accounts for such high levels of youth unemployment and what effect has it had on the region?
The globalization of markets is creating increasing pressure for educational reform in Latin America.
For a long time, poor coverage and low quality education in Latin America have been seen as some of the main causes for the slow economic growth and the unequal income distribution. Since World War II, many governments decided to hire more teachers and to build more schools; consequently, in…