Americas Quarterly Covers the Education Crisis in Latin America
Americas Quarterly Covers the Education Crisis in Latin America
Schools in the region were fully or partly closed due to the pandemic more than in any other part of the world. AQ ’s latest issue looks at ways to help.
New York, January 25, 2022 — “There will be no social justice in the 2020s, and likely beyond, without urgent attention to education,” write Americas Quarterly’s (AQ) editors in the magazine’s first issue of 2022, out Tuesday, which focuses on the education crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. “The dropout rate will return to levels last seen in the 1980s. And of course, these trends are even more pronounced among the poor, young girls, and other historically disadvantaged groups.”
The education special report on this so-called “Covid generation” will be available at americasquarterly.org on January 25, and the full issue on January 26. View the PDF.
The issue presents the problem in numbers and offers solutions. Politicians and educators should work together to improve both technology and curriculums post-pandemic, writes Fernando Reimers of Harvard University. Natalie Alcoba looks at a program in Argentina that targets and engages potential dropouts and lures them back to school. Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA) President and CEO Susan Segal offers her view on how to close the education gap—and why the cost of not doing so is too high.
Join AQ on Tuesday, February 8, for the live launch event, “Confronting the Education Crisis: How to Rebuild Latin America’s Human Capital.” The conversation will feature Reimers, professor of the Practice of International Education at the Ford Foundation and director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Master’s Program at Harvard University; Claudia Costin, founder and director of the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education Policies (CEIPE) and a professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation; and moderator Cecilia Tornaghi, AQ’s managing editor and AS/COA senior director of policy. The event will be public and webcast live.
Also in this issue:
- AQ outlines the 2022 election landscape in Latin America, with candidate explainers for Brazil, Colombia, and Costa Rica.
- Edu Lyra: How to Fight Poverty from Within. Brazilian NGO Gerando Falcões reaches hundreds of favelas by partnering with local activists. By Cecilia Tornaghi.
- Facing Hunger, Venezuelans Rely on Nature’s Bounty. Photographer Andrea Hernández Briceño depicts how the land provides a precarious solution to the country’s food shortages.
To request interviews with the authors, or to request publication permission, please contact AS/COA Media Relations at mediarelations@as-coa.org.
