The purpose of this document is to give a review of the policies, programs and practices related to parental and community involvement in schools in seven Latin American countries: Bolivia , Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
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…
Las negociaciones de las organizaciones docentes en América Latina durante la década de los 90, más allá de las reivindicaciones laborales, se han desarrollado en un contexto de profundas reformas en el campo educativo, de recuperación de los sistemas democráticos, de nuevas exigencias del mundo globalizado y de reconceptualización del…
In 2016, the flow of remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean surpassed US $70 billion. In the 20 countries for which there is data available, the flow reached US$69 billion. This increase demonstrates continued growth since the post-recession period. In this article, we find a range of factors shaping this growth,
Modernizar la gestión educativa con el fin de elevar la calidad de la educación básica y que, además, el esfuerzo permita reducir las brechas educativas dentro de la propia sociedad, es una ambiciosa meta que está presente en diversas iniciativas de reforma en Centroamérica. Así se observa en los casos…
A partir de la inclusión de un módulo sobre trabajo infantil en la Encuesta de Hogares de Propósitos Múltiples (EHPM) en el año 2002, Honduras contó por primera vez con información directa sobre niños y adolescentes trabajadores, y se pudo conocer sus características socioeconómicas, las actividadeslaborales en las que participan, sus condiciones de trabajo, las razones por las…
En el marco del desarrollo de informes nacionales sobre progreso educativo que está promoviendo PREAL con varios países de América Latina para la publicación bianual de informes regionales sobre este tema, se difunden aquí algunos de los aspectos principales extractados del informe de Honduras Descargue el documento completo abajo
Central America faces a wide range of challenges in the global context, of which organized crime, access to trade and financing, and outbound migration are a few. This is a compilation of the most relevant Dialogue’s reports on the region.
Honduras shows great disparities in education. Despite being one of the countries in the Central American region that spends the highest percentage of its national budget on education, it exhibits some of the lowest performance. The challenges that it faces are formidable, and include addressing illiteracy among rural populations, improving access to secondary school, increasing enrollment in post-secondary schools, and improving overall educational quality. In this brief, we review the educational landscape in Honduras, including literacy, K-12 education, and workforce development.
A compilation of the most relevant Dialogue’s articles, presentations and reports on Central America: its development challenges and policy options.
What plausible explanations are there for the unprecedented, anti-corruption social and institutional reactions recently seen in Latin America?
Michael Shifter analiza en CNN la controversia por el debate en la OEA sobre Venezuela.
More regional governments are waking up to Venezuela’s disaster and are willing to do something about it. If Washington assumes a more unilateral, interventionist stance, progress could stall, drawing the United States and a transformed Latin America further apart.
Cuba Posible entrevista a Peter Hakim y Michael Shifter en conjunto para conversar sobre la integración latinoamericana y las relaciones “Norte-Sur”.
This study presents the findings of a migrant survey conducted in November 2016 about remittances, new technologies, and financial access among Latin American migrants in the United States.
