May 7
Policymakers, educators, business leaders, and academics met today in Asunción to launch PREAL’s first report card on education in Paraguay, “The Challenge is Equity” (El Desafío es la Equidad). Read more
In a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan discussed a government proposal intended to make high-quality early education available to all four-year-old children, regardless of economic or social status. Read more
The Khan Academy, which provides students with instructional online videos and learn-as-you-go problem sets, is forcing educators to re-think the traditional teaching model. Read more
The Learning Metrics Task Force, established by UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics and the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, has just published a report on the competencies and knowledge that all children should master in order to succeed in life. Read more
Sir Michael Barber, Chief Education advisor at Pearson, former Partner at McKinsey & Company, and former Chief Advisor on Delivery to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, recently released a report detailing progress in a sweeping effort to reform primary and secondary education in the Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province. Read more
We are pleased to share with you a Ted Talk featuring Andreas Schleicher, the head of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Read more
A recent study of the benefits accruing to rural students through Peru’s One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program outlines the potential for and limits to learning associated with such initiatives. Read more
We are pleased to share with you PREAL’s most recent Policy Audit, an analysis of Chile’s Preferential School Subsidy Program (SEP). 
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The OECD’s Third Annual International Summit on the Teaching Profession, to be held in Amsterdam on March 13-14, will focus on teacher evaluations and professional standards. The Summit will be based on the report Teachers for the 21st Century: Using Evaluation to Improve Teaching. Read more
In her most recent article in Educación a Debate, Lucrecia Santibañez writes about teacher evaluations in Mexico, a very relevant topic in the country’s current discussions on educational reform. Read more
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