When schools worldwide began shifting from face-to-face to virtual classrooms due to the pandemic, educators were forced to rethink and redesign their learning environments – essentially overnight. While technology in schools had been rising for years, few teachers had extensive experience in conducting learning in a mostly online environment. In Honduras, nearly … [Read more...] about Creating Effective Online Education Experiences in Honduras
Educational systems
How Are Call Centers Helping Education in Haiti?
Over the years, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Bank-financed projects’ ability to conduct in-person supervision has become significantly hindered in Haiti. Indeed, the education sector has noticed that children are not attending schools due to dangers associated with movement, school constructions are delayed due to materials and people unable to pass through … [Read more...] about How Are Call Centers Helping Education in Haiti?
Investing in Education: The Key to Preventing a Crisis Like COVID-19
The IDB calls on the public and private sectors to take action and invest in education to address the region’s learning crisis and its aggravation by the COVID-19 pandemic … [Read more...] about Investing in Education: The Key to Preventing a Crisis Like COVID-19
Back to School After COVID-19: Why Not a Return to the Future?
During the third quarter of the twentieth century, many Latin American countries made a great effort to expand the coverage of their education systems. The progress, albeit important, was insufficient and uneven and was interrupted by the crisis of the end of the 1970s: output fell in almost all the continent, unemployment skyrocketed and countries were hit by hyperinflation. … [Read more...] about Back to School After COVID-19: Why Not a Return to the Future?
Simple is Innovative: Simple, Flexible Planning in Haiti to Promote Effective Responses
Over the last several years, Haiti has been rife with ongoing political and social unrest (including a national lockdown period called Peyi-Lok), skyrocketing levels of unemployment, natural disasters including devastating hurricanes and earthquakes, the COVID-19 health crisis, and a tragic presidential assassination. In the midst of these challenges, the schooling of children … [Read more...] about Simple is Innovative: Simple, Flexible Planning in Haiti to Promote Effective Responses