Analysis

Nuevos proyectos de PREAL

Con dos nuevos proyectos inició PREAL sus actividades en el año 2001. Uno de ellos es el programa «Educación privada en América Latina: al servicio de las metas nacionales para el desarrollo de recursos humanos.» Su objetivo es, por una parte, identificar formas que ayudan a asegurar que la educación…

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Desarrollando estándares de contenido: creando un proceso para el cambio.

Líderes en todos los ámbitos del sistema educativo están desarrollando estándares para especificar aquéllo que los estudiantes deben saber y ser capaces de hacer en las principales áreas de contenidos. Los grupos locales y estatales, las organizaciones profesionales, y los consorcios de estados y distritos están diseñando estándares.   Descargue…

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Estándares para las escuelas norteamericanas: ¿Ayuda u obstáculo?

Los esfuerzos por reformar los colegios norteamericanos no son precisamente una novedad. Cuando en 1957 la Unión Soviética envió al Sputnik alrededor del globo terrestre, el Congreso Norteamericano dirigió su mirada a las escuelas para recobrar lo que creíamos tener: el liderazgo en el espacio. El movimiento de reforma currícular…

Elliot W. Eisner

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Brazil’s Slow & Uncertain Shift

Over the last two decades, Brazil’s trade policy has centered on two main negotiations. Progress on both fronts, however, has been limited.

João Augusto de Castro Neves

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Keeping the Lifeline Open: Remittances to Somalia

This report investigates the obstacles facing the free and secure flow of remittance transfers from the United States to Somalia.

Manuel Orozco, Julia Yansura

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Decentralization for Educational Quality

The education law and the various decennial and operation plans of education have specifically presented a policy of education participation, where the community, families and organizations non-governmental are stimulated to integrate in the development of education programs and projects.

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Report Card on Education- Peru

This is the third Report Card on Education that is produced in Peru. In that sense, this gives us the possibility- as long as the data allow us- to make comparisons over time. It is important to recognize that the results of the first report card, published in 2004, we…

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Decentralization for Quality Education

Since its creation in 1995, the Program for Education Reform Promotion in Latin America and the Caribbean (Programa de Promoción de la Reforma Educativa en América Latina y el Caribe (PREAL)  has proposed to contribute to the improvement of quality and equity in education through the enhancement of education policies,…

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Mega-Regional Trade Negotiations

During this decade, and with particular intensity in recent months, several far-reaching trade negotiations have been in the works worldwide.

Sebastián Herreros, Osvaldo Rosales

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Is Legalization Possible?

Though many recognize that the immigration system needs repair, the issue of what to do with undocumented immigrants is a political lightening rod.

Manuel Orozco, Julia Yansura

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Report Card on Education- Honduras

Despite the improvement in enrollment rates, Honduras is still behind in relation to the implementation of reforms that substantially improve the quality, efficiency and equity of education. The obstacles are many, including the education system internal factors such as lack of sufficient resources, political will, power transfer in the management…

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Financimiento de la educación en América Latina

Este libro recoge los principales documentos presentados al Seminario Internacional sobre Financiamiento de la Educación en América Latina, realizado en Santafé de Bogotá los días 23 y 24 de Julio de 1997. Descargue el documento completo abajo

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Teachers’ Integration Policies

We live in times of change: sociological, economic, moral, demographic and cultural changes, that are constantly challenging the ability of balance, integration and innovation of societies and systems. How do these changes affect schools and the way they train teachers? How should we rethink the work of teachers under these new…

Carlos Marcelo García

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Fiscal Policy & the Poor in Latin America

Good fiscal policy not only promotes macroeconomic stability and growth, it is also a powerful tool for directly reducing poverty and inequality.

Jeffrey Puryear, Mariellen Malloy Jewers

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