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How to increase productivity and competitiveness in a complex and changing environment? Mariano Jabonero, Secretary General of the OEI, presents the findings of their latest report "Higher Education, Productivity and Competitiveness in Ibero-America" and answers our questions. Read more +

In this blog, we present the core elements necessary to implement the Declaration of the Regional Forum: Towards Quality Early Childhood Education in the region. Read more +

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This blog details some of the responses implemented by telecommunication companies in the region to address connectivity problems in order to ensure students can continue their online education. Read more +

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The Inter-American Dialogue and Teach For All present a brief analysis of the impact that the pandemic has had in the educational systems of the region, based on information provided educational stakeholders representing the public and private sectors.Read more +

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The Covid-19 pandemic has created a crisis in the education systems of Latin America and the Caribbean like never before. During the Covid-19 pandemic, what solutions can mitigate the negative impacts of school closures?Read more +

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What are the long lasting effects of bringing technology to schools in rural areas of Latin America? Gabriel Sanchez Zinny gives us a look at how technology is changing school administrations. Read more +

BID Primeros Pasos

Get know know all about the Regional Network to Measure Childhood Development in Latin America. A joint effort to standardize measuring practices.Read more +

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What should we do to prepare the coming generations? What skills do people need to develop in order to actively participate in society and compete in the labor market? How should education be transformed, and why is technology—when used correctly—the key to this process? This blog seeks to answer these questions in a practical way, emphasizing the importance of adopting technology to transform learning.Read more +

There are many reasons why and ways in which partnerships between the public and private sectors can benefit education programs. The sheer scale of the challenge to improve the quality of education justifies the need to collaborate. Additionally, more than just working in parallel towards a common goal, the two…Read more +

Sri Mulyani Indrawati, World Bank MD and COO visits a school project in LeÛn, Nicaragua, that provides education and nutrition to students from poor areas. Robert Valls/World Bank

Whose advice should education decision-makers in Latin America—and in middle-income countries in general—be taking? In an interesting initiative, Fernando Reimers has compiled a book of letters and recommendations to ministers and decision-makers in education (Letters to a New Minister in Education: Learning to Lead Education Systems). The Dialogue’s Education program…Read more +

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The business of recruiting young Dominican baseball players is today a high value global industry, but it can also lead to a risky educational gambit for young Dominicans: leaving school to train. Read more +

Ramón wears a T-shirt bearing the logo of Allied Global, the call center where he used to work. Sarah Stanton / Inter-American Dialogue

Honduras has made significant efforts to position itself as an outsourcing hub, but do young people really have the necessary English skills to succeed?Read more +

Fundación Escuela Nueva - Volvamos a la Gente

There is wide empirical evidence that the Escuela Nueva (EN) model improves educational outcomes. Despite its proven effectiveness, the complete model has only been implemented in a few cases, and almost always for short periods of time. Why is this the case?Read more +

Latin American education systems may not be adequately preparing young people to undertake their roles as citizens.Read more +

The example of Cartagena´s Escuelas de Bancos presents one simple lesson: education planners and decision-makers need to pay more attention to community-generated solutions and non-formal education.Read more +