by Jorge Camil Starr, Huffington Post
Despite significant progress and the implementation of widespread reforms in Latin America to improve the access, quality and management of its educational systems, countries in the region are ranked among the lowest performing in the 2009 PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) results. When regions of the world are compared in terms of long run economic growth, Latin America ranks at the bottom along with Sub-Saharan Africa. Stanford University Senior Fellow Eric Hanushek argues that slow economic growth is directly related to the poor quality of education plaguing school systems and suggests that the long-term growth prospects would improve significantly if this were to change.
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