As schools seek to improve learning, many are moving towards sophisticated and high-stakes testing regimes. What isn't tested doesn't matter. To sharpen the focus on the competencies demanded by tests, schools are devoting an ever-greater share of resources to a few, basic subject areas, while...

Education quality can be measured in various ways, including the analysis of learning and other outcomes in children and through the analysis of underlying services. In Brazil, a collaborative endeavor between the IDB, the Ministry of Education and the Carlos Chagas Foundation focuses on the...

El ciclo de transicion estructural y las intensivas politicas de modernizacion y participacion social por via de la educacion generaron un conjunto de cambios en las estructuras sociales cuyas beneficiarias fueron las generaciones jovenes. La crisis de los anos 80, sin embargo, acentua la...

El ciclo de transicion estructural y las intensivas politicas de modernizacion y participacion social por via de la educacion generaron un conjunto de cambios en las estructuras sociales cuyas beneficiarias fueron las generaciones jovenes. La crisis de los anos 80, sin embargo, acentua la...