School attendance in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased exponentially in the last two decades, almost every child goes to primary school and access to preschool and high school is fast catching up. This increase in access has been mostly led by more attendance to school of...

Considerable progress has been made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since 1990. Although advances in improving MDG 4 and MDG 5a (reducing child and maternal mortality, respectively) have been made, progress is some countries have been insufficient. While some...

In-service teacher training aims to improve the supply of public education. A randomized experiment was conducted in Mexico to test whether teacher training could increase teacher efficiency in public secondary schools. After seven and a half months of exposure to a trained teacher, students...

The purpose of this report is to identify critical issues for consideration in the development of secondary education policies in Latin America. The document follows a simple and direct logic. First, grand forces affecting the expansion, structure and curriculum of secondary schools in Latin...

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.Abstract: Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de...

In today's knowledge-based societies, understanding basic scientific concepts and the capacity to structure and solve scientific questions is more critical than ever. Accordingly, in this paper we test an innovative methodology for teaching science and environment in public primary schools where...

In the 1980s and 1990s, as part of a global transformation, Latin American countries suffered economic crisis and then underwent economic transformation and political democratization. Educational systems also changed in the larger economies, basic education became largely universal.Abstract:...

Belize is paying a lot for education but getting little. More youth are outside the school system than in it and many fail to make the transition to the workforce. More and more youth drop out of school and become involved in gang activities. Action is needed if Belize is not to lose a whole...

¿A los cuatro o cinco años operan con álgebra, aritmética y geometría? Puede que resulte difícil de creer, pero si visita una clase de prescolar en la región Cordillera de Paraguay, verá niños que aprenden factoreo organizando pelotas y palitos en grupos, y que trabajan juntos para...

The Sector Guidelines for Education identify the poor and unequal learning outcomes as the Region's main educational challenge, and proposes five priority areas for Bank's involvement in the education sector in the next years: 1. Improving educational services for Early Childhood Development 2....