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Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America

Ben Ross Schneider

Education, work, finance & impact

Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America

By Ben Ross Schneider, the Ford International Professor of Political Science and faculty director of the MIT-Chile Program and MISTI Chile

Oxford University Press · 2024

In "Routes to Reform," Ben Ross Schneider examines education policy throughout Latin America to show that reforms to improve learning - especially making teacher careers more meritocratic and less political - are possible. He demonstrates that contrary to much established theory, reform outcomes in Latin America depended less on institutions and broad coalitions, and more on micro-level factors like civil society organizations, teacher unions, policy networks, and technocrats.

From Summer 2024 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.