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

This paper provides an alternative approach to measuring the cost-effectiveness of educational interventions. The authors devised a questionnaire and gave it to ten international experts, mainly located in universities and international agencies, all of whom were well acquainted with educational...

This report is based on a limited study done with a questionnaire and interviews with important officers of the Ministries of Education in six Caribbean countries. The study was limited because of time constraints and the type of contacts that were possible with each of the respondents, in the...

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 synthesis report begins with a brief overview of the education system in Chile and the expressed need for a national system of quality assurance. Five case studies from British Colombia, England, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Scotland are presented along with the 'twelve commandments'...

This paper is intended to synthesise available evidences on the emergence of a generational approach to learning and knowledge management strongly influenced by having always been living surrounded by and interacting continuously with information and communication technologies (ICT).

The combined challenges of poverty and governance urgently require active, politically informed and educated citizens, aware of their capacity to influence community events and government, at all levels.

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.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze three broad themes related to school principals: (1) the role of the school principal, (2) the preparation of principals to assume new roles, and (3) directions for future research on principals and their work.

Education reforms are a constant social and political activity. Teachers have received more training, classes are smaller, more students have textbooks and they are of better quality. Curricula have been revised in accord with developments in cognitive psychology and advances in science....