Highlights

CNN: Back to school in Haiti
The challenge of rebuilding Haiti´s education system. Gabriela Frías interview with Marcelo Cabrol, Chief, Education Division (IDB). (Spanish)

The New York Times:
Haiti’s Schools
The first, five-year phase plan to build a new education system in Haiti is expected to cost $500 million. Half of that would come from the IDB, which has helped design the program.

Miami Herald:
New education system may rise from Haiti's ruins
Some leaders are seeking to use Haiti's catastrophic earthquake as an opportunity to fix a broken school system.

Education

Education is crucial to development and is a basic requirement for achieving genuine equal opportunity.

Through its Education Division, the IDB works together with 26 borrower countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to get children and young people to exercise their right to a high quality education, successfully develop their own potential and thereby reverse the cycle of poverty.

Due to its strategic importance to the Region, the Bank has launched the Education Initiative, which will be focusing its research work on three main areas: Early Childhood Development, School-Work Transition and Teacher Quality.

Education priorities:

By the numbers

Even though only 14% of all Latin American children attend private primary schools, the debate over differences in effectiveness between private and public schools persists region-wide.

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IDB backs major education reform in Haiti
The IDB commits to raising $500 million for an overhaul of the Haitian education system at a board meeting of ...

Without Data, There is No Action
The Regional Project on Child Development Indicators, PRIDI will allow countries to benchmark progress on chil...

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