17 novembre 2015

By Santiago García da Rosa, César Guadalupe and Julia Ruiz Pozuelo. The Latin America Learning barometer is an interactive tool developed to showcase the state of education in Latin America, and allow users to see how it compares over time and across countries. The barometer uses the latest available data, and is the third in a series that illustrates the state of education across world regions. The previous barometers can be found here: the Arab Learning Barometer and the Africa Learning Barometer. More...

By Elizabeth King. There are now more girls attending school in the developing world than ever before, and the gender gap in education has narrowed considerably. But hold the celebration. Despite the progress indicated by the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) statistics, there are some countries where gender equality in education is still far from being reached. And unless progress is accelerated in those countries, the global goals for education will not be met. More...

By Patrick McGuinn. States are working hard to realign education policies, institutions, and personnel in the wake of the flurry of reforms prompted by No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Race to the Top (RTT), and the NCLB waiver process. More...

By Melinda Lewis and William Elliott III. As previous posts in this series have shown, the crisis in student borrowing is not extraordinary debt loads; those are relatively rare and sometimes not even that harmful. The real college debt crisis is in how student borrowing may be compromising higher education’s potency as an engine of equal opportunity. More...

By Beth Stone. “Statistics on the conditions of minority boys and young men in the United States are grim and familiar,” writes Fredrick C. Harris in a new Governance Studies paper, “The challenges of My Brother’s Keeper.”  A recent demographic analysis estimates that approximately 1.5 million black men, in particular, are “missing” or have “disappeared” from communities across the country. More...