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Secondary Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Challenge of Growth and Reform
Wolff, Laurence; Castro, Claudio de Moura - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655447
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Desconectados: Habilidades, educación y empleo en América Latina Title: Disconnected: Skills, Education, and Employment in Latin America Title: Desconectados: Habilidades, educação...
Busso, Matías; Bassi, Marina; Urzúa, Sergio; Vargas, Jaime - Inter-American Development Bank
Mediante el análisis de información de primera mano recolectada a través de dos grandes encuestas una sobre trayectorias y habilidades conducida en Chile y Argentina en 2008 y 2010 respectivamente, y otra sobre demanda de habilidades realizada entre empresarios de Argentina, Brasil y Chile en...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895448
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Desconectados: Habilidades, educación y empleo en América Latina Title: Disconnected: Skills, Education, and Employment in Latin America Title: Desconectados: Habilidades, educação...
Busso, Matias; Bassi, Marina; Urzúa, Sergio; Vargas, Jaime - Inter-American Development Bank
Mediante el análisis de información de primera mano recolectada a través de dos grandes encuestas una sobre trayectorias y habilidades conducida en Chile y Argentina en 2008 y 2010 respectivamente, y otra sobre demanda de habilidades realizada entre empresarios de Argentina, Brasil y Chile en...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943375
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Secondary Schools and the Transition to Work in Latin America and the Caribbean
Castro, Claudio de Moura; Carnoy, Martin; Wolff, Laurence - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
triple role of preparing students for higher education, forming solid citizens and offering training for those who will … in secondary education. This paper is one of the reports prepared as background for the development of the Bank …'s strategy on primary and secondary education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216219
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Quality Assurance and Large Scale Reform: Lessons for Chile
Hopkins, David - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
This synthesis report begins with a brief overview of the education system in Chile and the expressed need for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198407
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Desconectados: Habilidades, educação e emprego na América Latina: Sumário
Bassi, Marina; Busso, Matías; Urzúa, Sergio; Vargas, Jaime - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Mediante a análise de informações recolhidas em primeira mão por meio de duas grandes pesquisas -uma sobre trajetórias e habilidades, realizada no Chile e Argentina em 2008 e 2010, respectivamente, e outra sobre demanda de habilidades, entre empresários da Argentina, Brasil e Chile, levada...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729003
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Approach Paper: Country Program Evaluation: Paraguay (2009-2013) Title: Documento de enfoque: Evaluación del Programa de País: Paraguay (2009-2013)
Puerta, Juan Manuel; Corrales, Maria Elena; Herrera, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This approach paper defines the scope and content of the Paraguay country program evaluation (CPE) for the period 2009-2013. This is the third time the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) has provided an independent look at the Bank¿s program with Paraguay. The current evaluation covers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673781
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Challenges in Educational Reform: An Experiment on Active Learning in Mathematics
Berlinski, Samuel; Busso, Matias - Inter-American Development Bank - 2015
This paper reports the results of an experiment with secondary school students designed to improve their ability to reason, argument, and communicate using mathematics. These goals are at the core of many educational reforms. A structured pedagogical intervention was created that fostered a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240368
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Cost-Effectiveness of Education Policies in Latin America: A Survey of Expert Opinion
Schiefelbein, Ernesto; Wolff, Laurence; Schiefelbein, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
ministry of education. Each respondent was asked to estimate the impact of 40 possible primary school interventions on learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193926
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Public or Private Education for Latin America?: That is the (False) Question
Wolff, Laurence; Castro, Claudio de Moura - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216198