Feb 26
An Interview with Silvia Montoya (SM) by Ariel Fiszbein (AF)
Ariel Fiszbein interviews Silvia Montoya, the new Director of the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, about her experience as Director in charge of evaluation in the Ministry of Education in the City of Buenos Aires, the lessons she learned about learning assessments and education statistics, and her expectations about her new job.
By Silvia Montoya*
On any given day in the city of Buenos Aires, approximately one in every ten teachers is absent. This percentage is greater than the observed figures in first world countries, while inferior to the figures reported in other developing countries and in other provinces in Argentina.
An Interview with Manuel A. Alvarez Trongé and Alejandro J. Ganimian
To mark the publication of a report on the poor quality of education in Argentina, Ariel Fiszbein (Director of the Education Program at the Inter-American Dialogue) interviewed Manuel A. Alvarez Trongé (President of Proyecto Educar 2050) and Alejandro J. Ganimian (author of the report).
In this week’s post, Silvia Montoya and Víctor Volman, of the Directorate-General of Education Quality of Buenos Aires, discuss an innovative approach to monitoring the effectiveness of education systems. Read more
By Alexandra Solano, with Scott Odell and T’Nia Crutchfield
The results of the 2012 PISA examination were released on December 3, 2013, immediately prompting reactions. Several actors, including PREAL, reported on the main takeaways for Latin America. Governments released statements, gave interviews, and offered press briefings. Read more
Alejandro Ganimian, a doctoral student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and former PREAL program associate, recently summarized Argentina’s performance on the 2012 PISA exam for Proyecto EDUCAR 2050 in Buenos Aires, and prepared an article on ten myths that try to explain the country’s low scores. Read more
The results of the OECD’s 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) were released yesterday. We list below key takeaways for the eight Latin American countries that participated in this round (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay). Read more
Alejandro Ganimian, former PREAL staff member and current doctoral candidate at Harvard University, gave a presentation (in Spanish) at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires regarding the impact of teacher policies on student achievement. Read more
A recent article in La Nación discusses Argentina’s ban on publishing the results of student achievement tests, its implications for education quality, and contrasts Argentina’s policy with steps by other countries, such as Brazil and Mexico, to make test scores public school by school. Read more
On August 30, PREAL co-director Jeffrey Puryear spoke at the III a. The Forum was organized by Proyecto EDUCAR 2050, a group of civil society leaders seeking to improve education in the country.
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Ariel Fiszbein
Alejandro Ganimian
Alex Solano
Belén Cumsille R.
Eduardo Vélez Bustillo
Federico Sucre
Jeff Puryear
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