CIMA Brief #4: Have academic achievement gaps closed?
Peer Reviewed
Date issued
Mar 2018
Subject
Academic Performance;
Primary and Secondary Education;
Monitoring and Evaluation;
School Attendance;
Preschool Education
JEL code
I21 - Analysis of Education
Category
Catalogs and Brochures
The expansion of access to education in the region has been accompanied by greater inclusion: more poor students and those in rural areas are attending school at all levels. In pre-primary and secondary, the educational gap between rich and poor students remains large.
