The case for disruption in Latin America’s classrooms (Susan Segal, WEF)

Many schools in Latin America – and in the U.S. and around the world – continue to use antiquated models for education that do not serve 21st century students. And students are paying the price. While there is now almost universal access to primary education in Latin America, the 40% that go on to graduate from the secondary level are not getting a quality education, and lag far behind their peers around the world. More than half of the students from the region did not achieve the minimum level of learning prescribed by the 2012 PISA. All eight Latin American countries that participated in the evaluation ranked in the bottom 20 of the 65 countries tested

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/a-case-for-disruption-in-latin-america-s-classrooms