This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the complexities, heterogenetics, nightmares, dreams, crisis and promises of education in the region.

We are living in a time of resurgent global conflicts and imperialistic tensions--a time in which many children are being left behind by school systems that appear more concerned with developing accountability schemes and standardized models of testing than with defending the right of every child to have access to a good education. The efforts of countless teachers, activists, and families working and living in poor areas around the world are labeled as failures, entirely discredited on the basis of their expendability in relation to capital gains, or simply ignored. In response to these...

If you want to actually do something about providing excellent education for every child in America this is the book for you. Using insights from cognitive science educational research and the social sciences the authors examine the compelling nature of four ai 1/2dumb ideasai 1/2 at the center of current education policy and practice: (1) simplifying knowledge helps students learn more and faster (2) teaching and learning are a matter of proper transmission of good content (3) homogenous environments ease learning and (4) more standardized data and rigorous controls of our schooling will...