La estrategia educacional del Banco Mundial para América Latina y el Caribe
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.
Analysis
Primary Education in Latin America
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,…
Institutional Capacity Building
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…
Report Card on Education
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…
Obstáculos políticos en la implementación de las reformas educativas
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…
Teachers’ union and education reform
In the 80’s Latin America had to face the exhaustion of the development model upon which is structured its economy during the 30s. Throughout this decade a set of events and changes that generated a new restructuring of the world order, were accumulated to such proportions that social scientists believe…
How do educational assessment results appear in the press?
The PREAL Working Group on Standards and Evaluation(GTEE) has worked recent years in the improvement of the use and dissemination of the National assessmentsresults that were attained in the countries ofthe region. The national educational evaluation systems were born in most of the region during the 90s responding to a…
Invest in Education
The 2004 Report Card on Education in Nicaragua showed progress in education until that time. Standards for primary education were defined and results on the first standardized test to first and six graders were published. Also, extending school participation led to the sharing of school responsibilities with school families. Despite…
Report Card on Education- Peru
In Peru, it is generally known that a better quality education could build citizens, who are better prepared for the democracy and modern and flexible workers, who would help reduce poverty. However, over the last decade- as well during the previous one- many factors have prevented the improvement of the…
Sistemas de evaluación de aprendizajes en América Latina
El Grupo de Trabajo sobre Evaluación y Estándares (GTEE) del PREAL –Programa para la Promoción de la Reforma Educativa en América Latina y el Caribe– viene realizando desde el año 2000 varios estudios sobre el estado de situación de la medición y evaluación de la calidad educativa en América Latina,…
Education Policy Reform for Quality and Efficiency in Honduras
In 2008, the Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas (PREAL) and the Ricardo Ernesto Maduro Andreu Educational Foundation (FEREMA) began the project “Education Policy Reform for Quality and Efficiency in Honduras,” designed to improve education policy in the country. The project contributed two lines of action in the educational…
Teacher Effectiveness
This working paper contains a review of recent international literature on themes related to teacher effectiveness.The first section presents a working definition of the term as used in this review. Section 2 covers general educational needs, the state of the teaching profession, and the status of teacher training in Latin America.1 Section 3 presents several…
The commitment to invest in better education
Since December 2005, Argentina relies on La Ley de Financiamiento Educativo (Law of Education Financing), an instrument to modify the structure of education financing and introduced significant changes in the political and financial relations between the national government and the subnational government.
Report Card on Education- Guatemala
In the last 10 years Guatemala has made great advances. The consolidation of the democratic system and the signing of the peace process have created a more favorable climate for education. However, there are still social and economic development problems. Guatemala is a country of young, multilingual and multicultural people.…
Iniciativas orientadas a la formación y perfeccionamiento de los docentes
Prácticamente todas las reformas de mejoramiento de la educación contemplan entre sus principales ítems medidas relacionadas tanto con la formación inicial de los profesores como con alternativas de perfeccionamiento y capacitación de quienes ya están en servicio. En este número se presentan algunas experiencias que ilustran soluciones adoptadas en tres…