Imagine you are a 16-year-old student living in Latin America. You have an argument with a group of friends or end a relationship, as often happens in adolescence. When you arrive at school the next day, your entire life has changed: you have become a victim of deepfakes containing intimate content as a form of revenge.
This study performs a meta-analysis of extensive research on extended school day (ESD). The evidence summarizes the impact of ESD on academic performance, socioemotional factors, risk behaviors and other outcomes on family and community. The evidence suggests ESD policies have marginal effects on educational achievement and positively impact dropout rates and the areas mentioned above. This paper also discusses the challenges of implementing ESD programs.
This study performs a meta-analysis of extensive research on extended school day (ESD). The evidence summarizes the impact of ESD on academic performance, socioemotional factors, risk behaviors and other outcomes on family and community. The evidence suggests ESD policies have marginal effects on educational achievement and positively impact dropout rates and the areas mentioned above. This paper also discusses the challenges of implementing ESD programs.
What should a student know? What knowledge is most necessary? How should we teach? The answer to all these questions lies in the educational curriculum – the roadmap that lays out the knowledge and skills students should acquire in school. The faster society changes, the more flexible the curriculum should be to adapt and respond to new needs. This is probably why curriculum reforms are at the center of discussion on the education agenda in countries within and outside the region.
In 2016, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) partnered to develop Gender Parity Accelerators (IPGs, for its name in Spanish) in Latin America. The French Development Agency (AFD, for its name in Spanish) joined this collaboration in 2019.
During the IDB Group’s Knowledge Week on October 23–27, academics, regional and international experts, and IDB specialists met to share experiences on topics that are critical to the planet’s future.
Skills are important for accessing high-quality jobs and being more productive. However, in Brazil and other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, many people neither receive adequate training, nor develop skills that are demanded in the labor market. While job training programs are generally successful in providing job seekers with new skills, they have had mixed results on employment and earnings.
Skills are important for accessing high-quality jobs and being more productive. However, in Brazil and other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, many people neither receive adequate training, nor develop skills that are demanded in the labor market. While job training programs are generally successful in providing job seekers with new skills, they have had mixed results on employment and earnings.
During 2022 and 2023, flows of remittances re-ceived by LAC countries continued to grow at rates of 10.7% and 9.5% respectively, similar to the rates that had been observed before the COVID-19 pandemic, thus consolidating the trend observed up to 2018 and 2019. The growth of remittances in 2023 is produced above all by the growth of remit-tances received by the Central American countries (13.2%), in particular Nicaragua, by the growth of the remittances that Mexico received (9.8%), and the growth in remittances to South America (7.9%), especially to Argentina and Paraguay.
During 2022 and 2023, flows of remittances re-ceived by LAC countries continued to grow at rates of 10.7% and 9.5% respectively, similar to the rates that had been observed before the COVID-19 pandemic, thus consolidating the trend observed up to 2018 and 2019. The growth of remittances in 2023 is produced above all by the growth of remit-tances received by the Central American countries (13.2%), in particular Nicaragua, by the growth of the remittances that Mexico received (9.8%), and the growth in remittances to South America (7.9%), especially to Argentina and Paraguay.