This paper presents evidence of the relationship between the disparity in the academic performance of boys and girls in Colombia and the country’s excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database,...

Many Caribbean nations are embracing knowledge-based and skill-intensive industries to expand their economies. The goal is to boost the competitiveness and productivity of the region's people through investments that lead to a better-educated workforce with more employable skills. This book...

In-service teacher training aims to improve the supply of public education. A randomized experiment was conducted in Mexico to test whether teacher training could increase teacher efficiency in public secondary schools. After seven and a half months of exposure to a trained teacher, students...

Most of the world's best universities are in the United States. Their graduates are responsible for many of the technological breakthroughs of the last quarter century. Top students from all over the world come here for graduate education.Abstract: Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de...

This paper examines the current status of secondary education in Latin America in the context of world-wide economic changes and identifies a wide variety of policy options for ensuring that secondary education can play a positive role in the region's economic and social development. The paper...

Many Caribbean nations are embracing knowledge-based and skill-intensive industries to expand their economies. The goal is to boost the competitiveness and productivity of the region's people through investments that lead to a better-educated workforce with more employable skills. This book...

The purpose of this report is to identify critical issues for consideration in the development of secondary education policies in Latin America.

Most of the world's best universities are in the United States. Their graduates are responsible for many of the technological breakthroughs of the last quarter century. Top students from all over the world come here for graduate education.

This paper examines the current status of secondary education in Latin America in the context of world-wide economic changes and identifies a wide variety of policy options for ensuring that secondary education can play a positive role in the region's economic and social development. The paper...

The report is based on new research commissioned to Brazilian social scientists focusing on both supply and demand factors affecting student attainment and performance. I