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 paper seeks to enlighten a complex and often polemical debate about public and private education. It argues that … information on learning, giving increased power to students, parents, and other stakeholders involved in public education …, providing more effective oversight of private schools, and establishing funding mechanisms for both public and private education …

. Education reform is driven by growth productivity and global competitiveness concerns, as well as concerns for social equity …: institutions, information, teachers, technology, and finance. Each of the above is directly connected to one or several of the …

This paper examines the current status of secondary education in Latin America in the context of world-wide economic … changes and identifies a wide variety of policy options for ensuring that secondary education can play a positive role in the …