El punto de partida de este documento fue el proyecto de cooperación técnica Género y el desarrollo municipal del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (NI-T1002), que financió el fondo -CABILICA- del banco y se implementó junto con el Instituto Nicaragüense para el Fomento Municipal (INIFOM)...

A través de este estudio buscamos una mayor comprensión de la condición de la educación en matemáticas y ciencias naturales en la etapa preescolar, primaria y secundaria de los sistemas educativos en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC). La investigación sobre las oportunidades disponibles...

El interés de este informe es comprender los factores determinantes de los embarazos en adolescentes y cómo estos influyen en las trayectorias educativas, preocupación que se deriva de la relación inversa entre los resultados de la educación y la fecundidad en las adolescentes. A través de...

The starting point for this document was the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) technical cooperation project Gender and Municipal Development (NI-T1002), which was financed by the Bank's Capacity Building Fund for Local Institutions in Central America (CABILICA) and implemented in...

This working paper discusses the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) pilot program carried out by the Haitian Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MENFP) conducted in collaboration with the IDB. The OLPC pre-pilot project was implemented at the Ecole Nationale Republique du Chili (ENRC), an...

Tailoring instruction to each student's needs can produce significant learning gains. However, few programs have successfully implemented this approach. In this paper, we present the results of a randomized evaluation of a program that uses an inquiry with an individualized scaffolding approach...

Changing pedagogical practices is a promising, cost-effective avenue for improving education in developing countries, especially when done without changing current inputs such as teachers and instruction time. This article presents the results of a randomized evaluation of a program that aimed...

Tailoring instruction to each student’s needs can produce significant learning gains. However, few programs have successfully implemented this approach. In this paper, we present the results of a randomized evaluation of a program that uses an inquiry with an individualized scaffolding...

An outstanding challenge in education is improving learning among low-achieving students. We present results from the first randomized experiment of an inquiry-based remedial science-education program for low-performing elementary students in the setting of a developing country. At 48 low-income...