This paper asks a deceptively simple question. After over a decade of concern about and investment in primary education …, what have been the results and how much further does the region need to go before it has achieved a primary education of …

This Strategy (GN-2067-3) summarizes what is known about how to improve primary and secondary education in Latin … secondary education over the next decade. The paper defines five critical areas of reform--making teachers partners in reform …, providing more and better textbooks and teaching materials, selectively supporting the use of technology in education …

This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican youth training program Juventud y … Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market outcomes and on outcomes related to youth … consistent with an overall increase in youth expectations about the future. The program also has a positive impact on non …

This study provides detailed accounting of the current levels of social exclusion in education and factors contributing … to them. It provides a quantitative and qualitative accounting and profiling of social exclusion in education in the … contextual factors intervening in the delivery of a quality education at all levels to socially excluded groups, particularly …