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Monday, 17 de March de 2025The crisis and the market: regulating Peru’s ungoverned private education market
Since the mid-1990s, Peru has undergone a process of default educational privatization, with the private education market now accounting for more than a quarter of the country’s enrolments. Such growth has taken place in an extremely loose and disorganized regulatory context, resulting in an extremely heterogeneous private education market, both in terms of supply and […]
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Thursday, 6 de March de 2025
Santiago Cueto on Epicentro.TV: Initial findings from the round 7 of the Young Lives survey in Peru
“A person born into a poor, rural, indigenous family, in general, is going to attend a lower quality school, is going to have lower educational attainment, is less likely to enter college, and is less likely to have the income of his or her more fortunate peers.” Our Senior Researcher Santiago Cueto spoke with Epicentro.TV’s […]
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Friday, 28 de February de 2025
Young Lives attrition report: round 7
Over more than 20 years, Young Lives has followed two cohorts born seven years apart (Favara et al. 2021). This technical note documents the attrition rates from the seventh round of the Young Lives survey carried out in Ethiopia, India (the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) and Peru in 2023–24, when the Younger Cohort […]
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Tuesday, 25 de February de 2025
María Balarin comments on the growing expansion of low-cost private schools in Lima
“There is a population group that does not feel well served because there is no supply or because they consider that the supply is not good for their needs (…). The question is whether these schools should exist. Should we allow schools to educate students with an investment of S/200 per month? What is the […]
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Wednesday, 12 de February de 2025
Policy implementation in a sisyphean state: improving pedagogical practice in Perú through the Soporte Pedagógico programme
The need to reform pedagogical practice in Peruvian schools has been on the country’s policy agenda at least since the mid-1990s. Since then, the country has undergone several attempts at reform through curriculum change and various in-service training attempts that relied on top-down implementation models and achieved only partial changes. In 2013, an innovative programme […]
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Tuesday, 21 de January de 2025
Tablets or mobiles? Use of devices for a reading application during the pandemic
The objective of this research was to identify if there is a differentiated impact on the access and use of a reading application (Booksmart, by Worldreader) between students who used tablets compared to those who used mobile phones to access the resource. It also sought to understand the perceptions of the actors involved regarding the use of the application on each […]
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Wednesday, 1 de January de 2025
From Math to Reading: Expanding APPrendemos in Peru’s Public Schools
During 2021 GRADE scaled up the Conecta Ideas Peru digital education program nationwide with the objective of promoting mathematics learning in students from 3rd to 6th grade of primary school. As part of the program, an app for students (owned by Automind) and a website for teachers were developed. Based on this experience, this project […]
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Tuesday, 31 de December de 2024
Research insights: how can behavioral nudges be leveraged to boost student effort and achievement?
Highlighting streaks of consecutive activity significantly increased students engagement with an online math platform, particularly by encouraging frequent use by students who use the platform at least once. Students whose streaks were highlighted showed measurable improvements in math achievement, demonstrating the potential of gamified behavioral interventions to enhance educational outcomes. Nudges that involve highlighting streaks […]
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Thursday, 26 de December de 2024
Interrupción escolar y vulnerabilidad educativa en el Perú: datos, estudios y recomendaciones para la educación básica en el Perú
This report presents data, studies, and analyses related to the interruption of studies, commonly referred to in the literature as school dropout or early school leaving, whether temporary or permanent. Here, we use the term “school dropout (interruption of studies)” to refer to children and adolescents who are not enrolled in regular basic education (EBR, […]
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Thursday, 26 de December de 2024
Interrupción escolar y vulnerabilidad educativa en el Perú
This document presents an analysis of school interruption in Peru, highlighting both its multi-causal nature and its disproportionate impact on the students affected. This phenomenon is the result of factors that often arise beforehand in vulnerable populations, such as rural, indigenous and extremely poor populations. Factors such as low educational quality aggravate the interruption of […]
