Publications of Education and learning
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¿Qué hemos aprendido del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio en el Perú? Nuevos hallazgos y desafíos pendientes (2018-2025)
Niños del Milenio, conocido internacionalmente como Young Lives, es una investigación de largo plazo que estudia cómo cambian la pobreza y las oportunidades de niñas, niños y jóvenes en países de ingresos bajos y medios. Durante más de dos décadas, el estudio ha seguido de cerca a dos grupos en el Perú: quienes tenían alrededor […]
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Solo una ilusión: Cambios en las aspiraciones y en el logro de las metas educativas y laborales de los niños y niñas en el Perú
La creencia en los retornos de la educación ha motivado a los estudiantes peruanos a aspirar a estándares más altos tanto en el ámbito académico como laboral. Este estudio analiza la evolución de las aspiraciones educativas y ocupacionales de los niños y niñas en el Perú hasta la culminación de la educación básica, y evalúa […]
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Streaks to success: The effects of highlighting streaks on student effort and learning
The authors examine whether highlighting streaks—instances of repeated and consecutive behavior when completing learning tasks—encourages 4th to 6th grade students in Peru to increase their use of an online math platform and improve learning. 60,000 students were randomly assigned to receive messages that (i) highlighted streaks, (ii) provided personalized reminders with positive reinforcement, (iii) provided […]
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Laptops in the long run: Evidence from the one laptop per child program in rural Peru
This paper examines a large-scale randomized evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in 531 Peruvian rural primary schools. We use administrative data on academic performance and grade progression over 10 years to estimate the long-run effects of increased computer access on (i) school performance over time and (ii) students’ educational trajectories. Following […]
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Education as and for Justice in the Global South Case Studies from Nepal, Perú and Uganda
This book explores the transformative potential of education in achieving Sustainable Development Goals 13 (climate action), 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions) and 10 (reduced inequalities). Examining case studies of secondary schooling in Nepal, Peru and Uganda, it critiques the established assumption of linear progress from education to social change. Instead, it argues for just-driven […]
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¿Cómo se configuran las barreras y facilitadores para la adopción de un programa de educación digital en matemática luego de la pandemia?
This study uses a qualitative approach to explore the barriers and facilitators to the adoption of the digital mathematics education program, Conecta Ideas Perú (CIP), by teachers in the post-pandemic Peruvian context. Through semi-structured interviews in 2022 and 2023, the experiences of four teachers from four public educational institutions were investigated. Framed within the Unified […]
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¿Cómo se entiende la resiliencia educativa en los países de América Latina y el Caribe?
El primer reporte del Observatorio AdaptED indaga sobre la presencia del concepto de resiliencia educativa, sus significados y prácticas en los países del Global Partnership for Education (GPE) considerando las características, retos y amenazas que atraviesan a nivel de sistema. Este análisis busca contribuir a la identificación y movilización de evidencias, así como a la […]
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Resisting regulation: Revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru
Although the regulation of private education has been a disputed topic in academic and policy debates, there is a lack of recognition regarding the underlying structures that inform such opposing viewpoints. Through a sociological understanding of disputes, I propose to see through the lenses of the market to understand the contested visions at play in […]
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Interrupción escolar en secundaria en el Perú: datos, evidencia y políticas
Discontinuation of schooling by students in secondary education in Peru is a critical problem that impacts the development of young people and their future opportunities. Despite advances in educational coverage, structural challenges persist that unequally affect different groups of students. This paper examines trends in secondary school dropout, its main causes and the public policies […]
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The 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 […]
