21st Century Skills is an initiative led by the Inter-American Development Bank that aims to gather and organize different stakeholders from public and private sectors in order to equip Latin American and Caribbean citizens with the fundamentals: transversal skills that enable them to grow and prosper at a rapid pace to achieve the highest levels of welfare.
Yolanda Ramos is the Senior Regional Director of for the Americas at International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and Casandra Woodall is the Senior Director for Business Strategy at ISTE. ISTE is member of the 21st Century Skills Coalition joined by different public and private organizations to promote the development of 21st century skills in Latin America and the Carib
This paper analyzes the impact of longer school days on student achievement in Colombia. To identify the impact of longer schools days, this study exploits plausibly exogenous within school variation in the length of the school day. Using test score data from 5th and 9th graders in 2002, 2005, and 2009, along with school administrative data, this research uses school fixed effects models to estimate variation in average test scores across cohorts for schools that switched from a half school day to a full school day or vice versa.
The emergency has accelerated technological integration in university education. However, three out of four professors in the region do not feel prepared to use new digital technologies in the classroom. The lack of technological and financial resources, strategic planning, and training are considered the main challenges for their integration. More spaces for collaboration, digital skills diagnoses, and training are essential to face the educational challenges imposed by the pandemic.
Entry by Juan M. Hernández-Agramonte (IPA), Emma Näslund-Hadley (IDB), Olga Namen (IPA) and Brunilda Peña de Osorio (MINED)
In the fight against COVID19, billions of personal geo-location data points are being used by countries around the world to “flatten the curve” of contagion, in order to re-establish the circulation of people, and to better manage physical distancing among individuals. We are referring to the surveillance systems that several governments have begun using to track or trace individuals and their physical contacts (contact-tracing) to control the contagion.
People prefer to age at home, in a familiar setting, and surrounded, when possible, by their belongings and closest relatives and friends. This is not only a matter of personal preference. The World Health Organization highlights the importance of the context in determining the effects of aging on health: aging at home increases confidence levels, independence, and autonomy.
It´s no secret that globally, women assume the majority of unpaid labor within the household; women also spend more hours on paid and unpaid labor combined than men do. This status quo has only been magnified by the global pandemic, which has overburdened the care economy to the brink.
Children and youth need to develop socio-emotional skills to achieve personal and professional success in the 21st century. For this reason, education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean have implemented policies and programs to develop the socio-emotional skills of their students.
People used to take the weather and climate for granted -butnot anymore! They are both now studied intensively by scientists
and discussed by celebrities and newscasters as they become
increasingly important to our own daily lives.
Every place on Earth has a climate. A climate includes factors that
remain fairly constant for at least 30 years, such as temperature,
humidity, the amount of water present in the air, and rainfall.
The region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of