The COVID-19 pandemic widened pre-existing opportunity, skills, and achievement gaps, with devastating impacts on our future generations. It has been more than two years and a half since the pandemic has changed the lives of 165 million students in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), who, on average, lost 237 days of school and faced tremendous learning … [Read more...] about Youth Skills Development: Preparing Young People for the Future
Cecilia Rodríguez Alcalá
Cecilia Rodríguez Alcalá is the founder of Paraguay Educa, an NGO dedicated to providing opportunities for children and youth in Paraguay to develop life skills through Edtech. Cecilia is an advisor for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and for the educational platform META. She is currently a consultant at the Vice Presidency for Sectors and Knowledge of the IDB and is working in development projects of the social sector.
Youth Skills Development: Preparing Young People for the Future
The COVID-19 pandemic widened pre-existing opportunity, skills, and achievement gaps, with devastating impacts on our future generations. It has been more than two years and a half since the pandemic has changed the lives of 165 million students in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), who, on average, lost 237 days of school and faced tremendous learning losses. … [Read more...] about Youth Skills Development: Preparing Young People for the Future