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Education: A Continuing Challenge

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Throughout the world, people are asking, “what is the quantity and quality of the educational system? Latin Americans find their schools and universities lagging behind those regions of the world with which they would like to be compared, Schools, although continually expanding, do not meet the needs of society. Among other problems, school construction and teacher training fail to keep pace with population growth—despite a falling birthrate since the 1970s.

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Williamson, R.C. (2006). Education: A Continuing Challenge. In: Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09592-3_9

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