Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Educación del Diálogo Regional de Política para la IX Reunión Hemisférica celebrada entre los días 8 y 10 de noviembre de 2006.

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 quality for all children? The paper creatively reviews...

This study explores the state of infrastructure in the region's primary education schools, using the SERCE database, and analyzes the connection between school infrastructure conditions and language and mathematics tests results for third and sixth grade students. The results of the analysis...

This paper discusses the links between empirical information and the development of educational policies in Latin America. The data presented in this paper comes from responses to a questionnaire sent to Vice Ministers of Education in six countries of the region: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador,...

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 will discuss the experience of two rural education models: Tutorial Learning System (TLS) and New School methodology for Post-Primary.

This study report includes relevant information about some of the probable reasons why socially disadvantaged youths and adolescents in the region drop out of school. The specific case studied was that of Argentina.

Community School District #2, in New York City, has been engaged in a long-term process of system-wide instructional improvement, now in its eleventh year. This process involves, among other things, heavy investments in professional development for teachers and principals that are focused on...

The context for this paper is a general concern among educational reformers and students of educational reform about the role of local school districts in the improvement of teaching and learning in schools.

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