Education and Learning
In the past several years, there have been improvements in Peruvian education. For example, enrollment rates have increased, and there is an observable trend toward improvement in standardized test scores. However, there is still much to be done in terms of the quality, equality, and relevance of education in Peru.
Therefore, all GRADE studies focus on identifying the existing challenges for the Peruvian educational system in achieving its intended impact on society. In these studies, GRADE researchers place significant emphasis on educational inequality. As such, our researchers have conducted studies on the effects of poverty, living in rural areas, race and ethnicity (with a focus on indigenous peoples and the Afro-Peruvian community), and disability on educational opportunities and success. GRADE researchers have likewise incorporated a gender component into many studies.
Informed by these studies as well as others, GRADE researchers have been directly involved in policy debates in numerous sectors of government, including those of the Ministry of Education and other institutions working on topics in education.
Senior Researchers
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Lorena Alcázar Valdivia
PhD en Economics - Washington University
Lorena has a BA in Economics from the Pacific University in Peru, a Master’s Degree in Political and International Economy from the Kiel Institute of World Economics, and a PhD in Economics from Washington University. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE). Previously, she served as Vice-President […]
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María Balarin Bonazzi
PhD en Educational Policy - University of Bath
María is a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) where she has a broad portfolio of both applied and academic research. Her applied work focuses on the analysis and qualitative evaluation of educational and social policies, with a special focus on processes of policy implementation. Her academic work has mostly focused […]
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Martín Benavides Abanto (on leave)
PhD en Sociology - Pennsylvania State University
Martín Benavides has a PhD in Sociology from Pennsylvania State University where he also attained a Master’s Degree in Education Policy. He has a degree in Sociology and a BA in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and has been a visiting student on issues of social mobility and inequality at Nuffield College […]
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Santiago Cueto Caballero
PhD en Educational Psychology - Indiana University
Santiago Cueto holds a degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a PhD in the same field from Indiana University in the United States. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of California at Davis and the University of Oxford. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE, […]
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Gabriela Guerrero Barnechea
PhD en Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Gabriela Guerrero has a PhD in Educational Sciences from the KU Leuven in Belgium and a Master’s Degree in Development Studies with a major in Public Policy from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She is currently a […]
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Juan León Jara-Almonte
PhD en - Pennsylvania State University
Juan has a PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education from Pennsylvania State University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with mention in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His research interests are inequality in education, intercultural bilingual education, early […]
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Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui
M.A. en Sociology - Johns Hopkins University
Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui graduated in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She obtained her MA and concluded her doctoral studies in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She has worked for GRADE as a Senior Researcher since 1985 and was Executive Director of the institution between 1988 and 1998. Her […]
Associated Researchers
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Vanessa Rojas Arangoitia
PhD candidate en - Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Vanessa is studying for a PhD in Sociology at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. She has a degree in Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Her work has focused on the anthropology of education and childhood, addressing issues of educational transitions, child welfare, educational quality and power relations. During 2012, she […]
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Néstor Valdivia Vargas
PhD candidate en Sociology - El Colegio de México
Néstor Valdivia is studying for a PhD in Sociology at El Colegio de México and holds a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is currently an Associate Researcher at GRADE in the fields of poverty and equality, education, the labor market and human development. He has worked on development and […]
Adjunct Researchers
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Antonio Campos Flores
PhD candidate en - University of San Andrés, Argentina
Antonio is a PhD Candidate in Economics from the University of San Andrés in Argentina. He holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of San Andrés and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. He has been a coordinator of educational policy evaluations at the Ministry of […]
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Liliana Miranda Molina
Master en - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Liliana has a master’s degree in Education Research from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). She worked at the Ministry of Education (MINEDU), first as Head of MINEDU’s Quality Measurement Unit and then as Vice-Minister of Pedagogical Management. Currently, Liliana is an Adjunct […]
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María Fernanda Rodríguez García
Master en - Cambridge University
María Fernanda holds a master’s degree in Education, Globalization & International Development from Cambridge University in United Kingdom and a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She returns to GRADE as an Adjunct Researcher.
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Paola Sarmiento Huerta
Master in Arts en - University of British Columbia
Paola holds a MA on Educational Policy from University of British Columbia (UBC) and has a degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She has been part of educational reform processes in Peru such as the Public Teaching Career and the University Reform. In addition, she has been a member of the […]
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Claudia Sugimaru Arakaki
Máster en Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Claudia holds a Master’s degree in Educational Sciences from KU Leuven in Belgium and a degree in Psychology with a major in Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Currently, she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE.
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Jessica Tapia Soriano
Master en - Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
Jessica holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences with an orientation on Education from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Argentina. Currently she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE and the Pedagogical Coordinator of the Growing with Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru (CREER) Project.
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Verónica Villarán Bedoya
Master en - Social Sciences with an orientation on Education
Verónica holds a Degree in Social Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a Master’s degree in Social Sciences with an orientation on Education from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Argentina. Between 2011 and 2014 she worked at the Ministry of Education, first as Director of Educational Research and Documentation and […]
Assistant Researchers
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Mauricio Saavedra Sánchez
Degree en -
Mauricio holds a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and studies the master in Political Science and Goverment from the same university. He returns to GRADE as an Assistant Researcher for the E-Tech Initiative project: where are we and how research can help learning in the developing world?
External Consultants
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Marcela Ponce de León
Master en - University College London
Marcela holds a Master in Policy Studies in Education from the University College London, UK and has a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She returns to GRADE as a consultant for the “Design of an evidence-based project on early childhood development in Peru for the Porticus Foundation” project lead by Gabriela […]
Research Assistants
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Gera Ríos Espinoza
Graduate en -
Gera is a graduate of Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Gera is a research assistant in the “Conecta Ideas” project.
Project Support Staff
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Mónica Lizama Egoavil
Degree en - National Agrarian University
Mónica studied Statistical and Computer Science Engineer at the National University Agrarian La Molina. Currently she is the Data Manager for Young Lives in Peru. Before joining Young Lives, Mónica worked as a statistics assistant at the Peruvian National Institute of Statistics (INEI) and the International Nutrition Institute (IIN).
External Affiliated Researchers
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David Baker
PhD en - Johns Hopkins University
David P. Baker is Professor of Education and Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the impact of education on individuals and societies, international comparisons of school organization, academic outcomes, and educational policy. His most recent book is The Schooled Society: The Educational Transformation of Global Culture. Palo Alto CA: Stanford University […]
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Jere R. Behrman
Ph.D. en - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Behrman is a leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics, with emphasis on developing economies. He is also a Research Associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center. His research interests include empirical microeconomics, labor economics, human resources (early childhood development, education, health, nutrition), project evaluation, economic demography, incentive systems and household behaviors. The unifying dimension of […]
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Marjorie Chinen
PhD en - University of California
Marjorie is a Ph.D. in Education with emphasis on Advanced Quantitative Methods in Social Research Methodology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has over 15 years of experience in project management, technical assistance, research and fieldwork in international development. She has led multiple projects in different areas of education, and designed and […]
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Marta Favara
PhD en - University of Essex
Marta is a Senior Researcher at the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford where she is leading the quantitative research agenda of Young Lives since 2015. She is also a Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School Programme on African Governance and an IZA Research Affiliate. Before joining Young Lives, she […]
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Sonia Laszlo
PhD en - University of Toronto
Sonia Laszlo is Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development. Her main research areas cover many aspects of applied microeconomic analysis in economic development: rural development, access to markets, and the relationship between income, health and education in economic development. In addition to using traditional analytic tools […]
Visiting Researchers
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Claudia Galindo
PhD en - Pennsylvania State University
Claudia holds a Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education from Pennsylvania State University, and a post-doctoral degree in Social Organization of Schools from Johns Hopkins University. She is an Associated Professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County where she teaches in the fields of educational inequalities, inmigration and research methodologies.
Publications
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Measuring the impact of covid-19 on children under the age of six in Latin America
2021 Gabriela Guerrero
Although in medical terms children are not considered a high-risk group for Covid-19, the impact of the pandemic on them is significant, especially among those who were already vulnerable before the crisis. Because of this, in different regions of the world – including Latin America and the Caribbean – the need was identified to implement […]
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¿Cuántos cuadraditos caben? Estrategias didácticas para la pedagogía multigrado en matemáticas
2021 Tatiana Mendoza, Elsie Rockwell
Hace algunos años, las autoras (Tatiana Mendoza y Elsie Rockwell) recibieron una invitación de las autoridades educativas del estado de Tlaxcala, México, para ofrecer un curso-taller a docentes multigrado con el fin de generar con ellos propuestas de estrategias didácticas multigrado. El proyecto implicó un arduo trabajo conjunto entre cinco especialistas en didáctica de lengua […]
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Evaluation of the design and implementation of high performance schools – COAR
2021 Maria Balarin, Lorena Alcazar
This report shows the results of the Evaluation of the Design and Implementation of High Performance Schools (COAR), a service model implemented by the Ministry of Education of Peru in 22 regions of the country.
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Didáctica multigrado: Un modelo integrador de organización de contenidos
2021 Limber Santos
En el artículo anterior sobre didáctica multigrado se abordaban los conceptos y principios que rigen en el campo de esta didáctica específica que, de modo transversal, está presente en diversos niveles educativos y áreas de conocimiento, aunque es en la escuela rural multigrado donde este modelo tiene mayor poder explicativo y prescriptivo. En este segundo […]
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La situación educativa de las niñas, niños y adolescentes afroperuanos: una mirada al acceso, resultados y entornos educativos
2021 Juan Leon,
One of the main barriers in our country (and in others countries) to portraying the socioeconomic situation of the Afro-descendant population is the lack of information disaggregated by ethnic group. This article presents the educational situation of Afro-Peruvian girls, boys, and adolescents and provides recommendations to continue developing studies that allow information to be disaggregated […]
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The dynamics of social research production, circulation and use in Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru: a comparative study
2016
The paper presents the results of a comparative study of the social research production environments of three Latin-American, low- and middle-income countries: Bolivia, Paraguay and Perú. It draws from three case studies – one of each country – based on in-depth interviews with key informants (policymakers, researchers, leaders of higher education and research institutions) conducted […]
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The Reliability and Validity of Achievement Tests in the Second Young Lives School Survey in Ethiopia
2015Juan Leon, ,
This technical note gives details of the reliability and validity of the assessments used in the second school survey carried out by Young Lives in Ethiopia for the purpose of the construction of test scores on a common scale within each language for maths and reading comprehension. This document give details of the three-parameter model […]
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Nivel socioeconómico, tipo de escuela y resultados educativos en el Perú: el caso de PISA 2012
2015
El objetivo del trabajo es analizar el logro educativo de los estudiantes en las habilidades evaluadas mediante las evaluaciones PISA 2012, con énfasis en el nivel socioeconómico, la titularidad de la escuela (público o privado) y el sexo del estudiante, empleando un modelo multinivel jerarquizado que tiene en cuenta los efectos fijos y aleatorios a […]
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Identificación de predictores del desempeño en la comprensión de textos orales y escritos
2015
The aim of the study was to identify predictors of reading comprehension in order to promote early interventions. We examined data from Young Lives study, using structural equation modeling, for assessing relationships between child and environmental features, and language development. Main findings were that (1) mothers’ features – which we relate to means to employ […]
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The default privatization of peruvian education and the rise of low-fee private schools: better or worse opportunities for the poor?
2015Maria Balarin,
The study on which this paper is based set out to explore what was happening in the lowfee private schooling sector in Perú—a growing and un-explored area of public education in the country and in many parts of the developing world—and, more specifi cally, at how parents from poor backgrounds make decisions and navigate the […]
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JournalEarly Child Development and Care
The influence of maternal employment on children’s learning growth and the role of parental involvement
2011Juan Leon, , ,
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, this study employed a latent growth curve model to examine how parental involvement explains the association between maternal employment status and children's math and reading achievement growth from kindergarten through the third grade.
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Educating Latin American economists
2011,
Graduate economic programmes in Latin America have evolved along the lines of two different traditions: one closely linked to the current economic mainstream (being in that sense ‘global’) and the other more local and heterodox. The paper provides an overview of perceptions, interests, concerns and opinions of global Latin American graduate economic programmes, comparing them […]
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JournalRevista de Educación y Cultura
¿Municipalizar o no municipalizar la educación?: algunas tesis para contribuir al debate
2010Nestor Valdivia,
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JournalCompare: a Journal of Comparative and International Education
Curriculum reform and the displacement of knowledge in Peruvian rural secondary schools: exploring the unintended local consequences of global education policies
2010Martín Benavides, Maria Balarin,
The processes of policy implementation in developing contexts and the unintended consequences of education policies that follow international policy scripts without enough consideration of local histories and cultures.
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JournalPsychological Science
Explaining the Education Effect on Health: A Field-Study from Ghana
2010Juan Leon, David Baker, ,
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Carlos Cueto Fernandini: educación, disciplina y libertad
Grandes educadores peruanos: libro dedicado a los maestros peruanos en su día2003Santiago Cueto,
Breve biografía del ilustre educador peruano Carlos Cueto Fernandini. Incluye aspectos de su educación y contribuciones profesionales a la filosofía de la educación, así como su carrera nacional e internacional.
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Estudios empíricos sobre determinantes del rendimiento escolar en el Perú
La investigación sobre eficacia escolar en Iberoamérica2003, Santiago Cueto,
Este capítulo realiza una revisión de la escasa pero interesante literatura empírica sobre determinantes del rendimiento escolar en el Perú.
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Opportunity to learn mathematics among Aymara-, Quechua- and Spanish- speaking rural and urban fourth- and fifth-graders in Puno, Peru
Which way social justice in mathematics education2003Santiago Cueto, , ,
This chapter describes the opportunities to learn of a sample of students in Puno, Peru. The opportunities to learn were measured through an analysis of the notebooks of a sample of students in each classroom.
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Desayuno escolar y rendimiento escolar
Consecuencias de la desnutrición en el escolar peruano2002Santiago Cueto,
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Determinantes de la eficiencia escolar
Consecuencias de la desnutrición en el escolar peruano2002Santiago Cueto,
El marco teórico para estudiar determinantes del rendimiento escolar. Estudios empíricos en Latinoamérica. Estudios empíricos en el Perú. Uso de estudios de determinantes en el desarollo de políticas educativas
No se han encontrado publicaciones de Education and Learning en la categoría Policy brief
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Una mirada a la educación en el Perú: balance de 20 años del Proyecto Principal de la UNESCO para América Latina y el Caribe 1979-1999
2001Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui,
Balance evolutivo de los programas educativos peruanos que, en las dos décadas pasadas, apuntaron hacia los objetivos del Proyecto Principal de la UNESCO para esta región, insumo para la evaluación global del PPE.
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Exclusión y oportunidad: jóvenes urbanos y su inserción en el mercado de trabajo y en el mercado de capacitación
2001,
Algunas de las características demográficas y socioeconómicas más importantes de jóvenes de ciudades en hogares pobres, su perfil educativo y de capacitación, y su inserción en el mercado de trabajo.
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Educación ciudadana, democracia y participación
1998Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui, Santiago Cueto,
Las Mimeos del seminario del mismo título realizado en 1997 en Lima a través de reflexiones que profundizan en el quehacer de intelectuales, funcionarios públicos y promotores sociales nacionales y extranjeros.
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Hacia una propuesta de educación primaria para el Perú: alternativas pedagógicas y de gestión
1997, , Santiago Cueto, , ,
El texto asume una posición conceptual en base a las necesidades y demandas de los niños entre los 6 y 12 años, para analizar el estado de la educación primaria de menores en el Perú.
No se han encontrado publicaciones de Education and Learning en la categoría Mimeo
Projects
- Impact evaluation of OLPC program in PeruJuly 2009 - March 2010
- Peruvian education progress reportJune 2009
- Study case for 2010 UNESCO Education for All reportMarch 2009 - April 2009
- Study on pedagogical practices at pre-school in urban and rural areasNovember 2008 - July 2009
- Explaining the educational effect and the risk demography: comparing school-attending and non-attending population in behaviors and decision makingOctober 2008 - September 2011
- Study on the conditions for education between rural schools in AndahuaylasOctober 2008
- Impact evaluation on the AprenDes project (2008)September 2008
- Mechanisms and incentives for educational decentralizationAugust 2008 - January 2009
- Provision of support to the Educational Quality Measurement Unit – UMC (PMA)July 2008 - October 2008
- Provision of support to the Educational Quality Measurement Unit – UMC (SCC)June 2008
News
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María Balarin: “La respuesta que la ley plantea es promover una mayor transparencia de parte de los proveedores de servicios educativos privados hacia los padres de familia”. Pensiones de colegios particulares en debate
March 14, 2019 Education and learning
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Start of classes. Santiago Cueto: ‘We must look for the balanced development of the people’
March 5, 2019 Education and learning
‘We must look for the balanced development of the people. If some children receive a lot of pressure from their families and they are very good in the academic field, but they fail to develop social and emotional skills, one could not call that a successful education’. Listen to the interview with our executive director, […]
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Bangkok: Members of GRADE joined the Think Tank Initiative 2018 as panelists and workshop participants
November 26, 2018 Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition, Urbanization and sustainable cities
After almost a decade of organizational support, the Think Tank Initiative brought together representatives of think tanks, policymakers, donors and other research-to-policy actors for a final Think Tank Initiative Exchange to mark the last year of the program. This Exchange built on a decade of TTI lessons, experiences and insights on the challenges of building […]
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Navigating Through Life: Young Lives Study Peru
September 3, 2018 Education and learning
The qualitative approach of the Young Lives study in Peru has been able to capture the changes in the biographies of 51 children. Their voices allow understanding how they face realities, responsibilities, and risks during the time in their lives when school is the main component. Their experiences let researchers reflect on Sustainable Development Goal […]
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Santiago Cueto es condecorado con las Palmas Magisteriales 2018 en el grado de Amauta por el Ministerio de Educación
August 15, 2018 Education and learning
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Events
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GRADE’s CREER Project held its second virtual discussion on educational policies for rural areas beyond the pandemic
21/10/2020 6:30 pm Evento virtual Education and learning
As part of its series of virtual conversations Contributions for dialogue and action, the project Growing with Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru (CREER) organized its second dialogue “Educational policies for rural areas: thinking beyond the pandemic”. PANELISTS Nora Delgado, general director of the Ministry of Education of Peru’s DIGEIBIRA. Verónica Villarán, coordinator of well-being for the CREER […]
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Patricia Arregui will be a speaker at Fe y Alegría book launch: “Public education: everyone’s responsibility in civic education”
07/10/2020 6:30 pm Evento virtual Education and learning
This Wednesday 7th, join the virtual book launch of Fe y Alegría del Perú, “Public education: everyone’s responsibility in civic education”. Patricia Arregui, coordinator of our Growing with Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru (CREER) project and senior researcher at GRADE, will be one of the speakers, along with Flor Pablo and Eduardo Vega. LIVE BROADCAST Connect to Fe y […]
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GRADE celebrates 40 years of foundation on the sidelines of Peru’s bicentennial
01/06/2020 → 30/06/2021 Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition, Urbanization and sustainable cities
When GRADE turned 35 in 2015, we researchers produced a set of research reports on key issues for the country’s development. These works, gathered in the book Research for development in Peru, sought to satisfy the demand for knowledge aimed at fostering a more informed debate on public policy in Peru. In the foreword of the publication, Javier […]
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CREER Series of Dialogues: Contributions for dialogue and action. First dialogue: Multigrade Rural School: debates from practice and research
30/09/2020 6:00 pm Evento virtual Education and learning
The Growing with Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru Project (CREER) presents the Serie of Dialogues: Contributions for the dialogue and action. The first webinar will address the “Multigrade rural school: debates from the practice and research”. SPEAKERS Limber Santos, director at the Departament of Education for the Rural Ambit of the Council of Initial and Primary Education of the National Administration of Public Education of Uruguay. Maribel […]
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Members of GRADE’s CREER project joined Fundación Telefónica dialogue on educational evaluation
24/09/2020 7:00 pm Evento virtual Education and learning
Santiago Cueto, Executive Director at GRADE and General Coordinator of the Growing with Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru (CREER), Jéssica Tapia, Pedagogical Coordinator for CREER, and Liriama Velasco, Consultant for CREER, joined the Fundación Telefónica Perú dialogue, “2020 School Year: What, how and why we evaluate?”.
- Education and Learning
- Employment, Productivity and Innovation
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Ethnicity, Gender and Citizenship
- Methodologies for Research and Evaluation of Policy and Programmes
- Poverty and Equity
- Natural Resources, Extractive Industries and Social Conflict
- State Reform and Public Institutions
- Health and Nutrition
- Urbanization and Sustainable Cities