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Public or Private Education for Latin America?: That is the (False) Question
Public or Private Education for Latin America?: That is the (False) Question

Date issued: Aug 2001
Author(s): Wolff, Laurence;Castro, Claudio de Moura

This paper seeks to enlighten a complex and often polemical debate about public and private education. It argues that the distinction between private and public is less important than the rules of…
Land Titling and Indigenous Peoples
Land Titling and Indigenous Peoples

Date issued: Aug 2001
Author(s): Plant, Roger;Hvalkof, Soren

This paper has the following main objectives: to review the actual or potential impact of land titling and cadastre programs on indigenous populations; to recommend actions that would minimize risk…
Household Responses to Adverse Income Shocks in Latin America
Household Responses to Adverse Income Shocks in Latin America

Date issued: Jul 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gaviria, Alejandro

This paper uses a new data set to study household responses to adverse income shocks in seven Latin American countries. The results show (i) that households respond to income shocks mainly by…
Experiencias Alternativas para la Expansión del Acceso a la Educación Secundaria para los Jóvenes en las Zonas Rurales: El Sistema de Aprendizage Tutorial (SAT) y el Modelo de Posprimaria Rural de Escuela Nueva
Experiencias Alternativas para la Expansión del Acceso a la Educación Secundaria para los Jóvenes en las Zonas Rurales: El Sistema de Aprendizage Tutorial (SAT) y el Modelo de Posprimaria Rural de Escuela Nueva

Date issued: Jul 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Perfetti, Mauricio;Leal, Susana;Arango, Pablo R.

La información aquí contenida y analizada fue recolectada a través de entrevistas a responsables y directivos de las instituciones y entidades nacionales que han participado en el diseño,…
La Educación a Distancia como Alternativa para Reducir la Deserción y Mejorar el Aprendizaje de los Jóvenes
La Educación a Distancia como Alternativa para Reducir la Deserción y Mejorar el Aprendizaje de los Jóvenes

Date issued: Jul 2001
Author(s): Block, Clifford

Este trabajo explora el potencial que tiene la educación a distancia para ser incorporada por los educadores, como una estrategia de expansión para la educación secundaria. Diversos ministerios…
Distance Teaching Strategies to Reduce the Dropout Rate and Improve Learning in Secondary Education
Distance Teaching Strategies to Reduce the Dropout Rate and Improve Learning in Secondary Education

Date issued: Jul 2001
Author(s): Block, Clifford

This paper explores the potential for educational planners to incorporate distance education into their strategies for the expansion of secondary education.
Successful Alternatives for Rural Education: Tutorial Learning System (TLS) and New School Methodology Rural Post-Primary
Successful Alternatives for Rural Education: Tutorial Learning System (TLS) and New School Methodology Rural Post-Primary

Date issued: Jul 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Perfetti, Mauricio;Leal, Susana;Arango, Pablo R.

This paper will discuss the experience of two rural education models: Tutorial Learning System (TLS) and New School methodology for Post-Primary.
Dropping Out or Exclusion from Secondary Education?: The Young Peoples' Perspective (The Case of Argentina)
Dropping Out or Exclusion from Secondary Education?: The Young Peoples' Perspective (The Case of Argentina)

Date issued: Jul 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Sanjuán, Ana María

This study report includes relevant information about some of the probable reasons why socially disadvantaged youths and adolescents in the region drop out of school. The specific case studied was…
Chestnut Women: French Caribbean Women Writers and Singers
Chestnut Women: French Caribbean Women Writers and Singers

Date issued: Jul 2001
Author(s): Berrian, Brenda F.

Brenda F. Berrian, North American Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, author of Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music and Culture (2000).
Como nueces de castaña: escritoras y cantantes del Caribe de habla francesa
Como nueces de castaña: escritoras y cantantes del Caribe de habla francesa

Date issued: Jul 2001
Author(s): Berrian, Brenda F.

Branda F. Berrian, profesora estadounidense de la Universidad de Pittsburg y autora del libro Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music and Culture (2000).