Peruvian Education at a Crossroads : Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century
Peru has reached a crossroads for education policy at the beginning of the 21st century. The status quo reflects major accomplishments. One direction for policy would, therefore, involve useful but relatively limited improvements in the current sit...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/05/1346398/peruvian-education-crossroads-challenges-opportunities-21st-century http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13948 |
| Summary: | Peru has reached a crossroads for
education policy at the beginning of the 21st century. The
status quo reflects major accomplishments. One direction for
policy would, therefore, involve useful but relatively
limited improvements in the current situation. This
direction, however, may prove inadequate to fulfill the
country's goal of having a highly educated
citizenry--fully competitive by international standards--to
underpin poverty reduction and to facilitate economic and
social development. A second generation of reform would be
required if this direction were taken. This study explores
these issues and lays out options for a second wave of
reform. Either of the broad directions for policy will need
to identify specific ways of improving educational quality.
This report analyzed the factors affecting fourth
graders' mathematics achievement levels in 1996 to
identify options to improve quality. The findings are
encouraging in indicating potential directions where change
could make a difference. The analysis found that after
controlling for a number of explanatory variables, the
performance of poor and extremely poor departments was
better than non-poor departments of education. To level the
playing field for all Peruvian children, then, it is
necessary to improve equity, quality, and efficiency in
planning and policy. |
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