Three important educational reforms took place in Bolivia during the 20th Century. The 1905 reform established a national education system. The 1955 reform broadened education coverage and promoted a homogenous national culture. The 1994 reform, currently in effect, restructures the educational...

Theoretically, there are several reasons to expect education to have a positive effect on health, and empirical research suggests that education can be an important health determinant. However, it has not yet been established whether education and health are indeed causally-related, and the...

Grigory Andrushchak, Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Institutional Dynamics, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: gandroushchak@hse.ru Timur Natkhov, Ph.D. in Economics, research fellow at the...

The Singapore education system was created nearly from the scratch, and in the last 45 years it managed to reach a high level of efficiency and international recognition. Singapore school students routinely show the best results in international knowledge tests. Singapore has left behind...

Aleksandr Gasparishvili, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Head of the Public Opinion Laboratory, Institute of Complex Educational Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: gasparishvili@yandex.ru Address: 1 Leninskiye Gory St., Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation.Oksana...

Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews...

This book compares the superlative performance of Asia's conventional systems with the poor performance of Latin America's schools, despite higher spending by the latter. The book showcases a variety of educational innovations developed to respond to Latin America's poor educational...

La educación superior en Colombia adolece de dos problemas fundamentales, estrechamente relacionados entre sí: un sistema de financiamientoque concentra las transferencias públicas en un grupo privilegiado de universidades y una oferta educativa de baja calidadcon una participación creciente...

Irina Grunicheva, research fellow at the Center of Socioeconomic Development of Schools, Institute of Educational Studies, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: igrunicheva@hse.ru Address: 20 Myasnitskaya St., 101000, Moscow, Russian...