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PREAL Co-director Jeffrey Puryear spokeat the
launch of the second Education ReportCard on the
the Challenge), in Santo Domingo onNovember 9.
View his slideshow presentation here. Imagefrom
the article “Informe:Esvital inversion y formación
demaestros,” published by Hoy.
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Actionfor Education (EDUCA), PLAN Dominican Republic, and PREAL released the secondeducation report card on the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo on November 9.The launch featured an address by PREAL Co-director Jeffrey Puryear andattracted over 80 participants, including Vice Ministers of Education VíctorSánchez and Adarberto Martínez, Director ofEvaluation Ancell Scheker, Director of the Dominican Institute of Research andEvaluation on Education Quality (IDEICE) Leo Valeiron, Director of EconomicStudies David Lapaix, USAID Education Officer Jana Wooden, IDB representativeto the DR Manuel Labrado, and representatives of NGOs, universities, theprivate sector, and the media, among others.
The report card, entitled El reto es la calidad (Quality is the Challenge) highlights the achievements andchallenges of the Dominican education system in terms of coverage, quality,equity, teacher training, investment, and management, and emphasizes changesobserved since the last report card in 2006.
Althoughthe Dominican Republic has achieved significant advances in basic educationcoverage and teacher certification in recent decades, the quality of educationcontinues to be a major challenge. Indeed, in a test of student learning in 16Latin American countries, Dominican students scored at the bottom (UNESCO,2007). In light of the proposals to improve education in the 10-YearEducation Plan (2008-2018) and the National Development Strategy (2010-2030),it is critical that all Dominicans – government authorities and the generalpublic – work to confront the problems of the educationsystem, setting objectives and clear achievement indicators to follow-upon established goals.
Thereport card seeks to stimulate an informed discussion of the educationchallenges that the Dominican Republic faces internally and in comparison withother Latin American countries to provide an equitable, high quality,relevant education for all Dominican youth.
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