DOCUMENT RESUME ED 474 668 UD 035 421 AUTHOR Wolff, Laurence; Castro, Claudio de Moura TITLE Secondary Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Challenge of Growth and Reform. Sustainable Development Department Technical Paper Series. INSTITUTION Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC. REPORT NO EDU-111 PUB DATE 2000-01-01 NOTE 60p. AVAILABLE FROM Publications, Education Unit, Inter-American Development Bank, 1300 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20577. Tel: 202-623-2087; Fax: 202-623-1558; e-mail: sds/
[email protected]; Web site: http://www.iadb.org/sds/edu PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Academic Achievement; Computer Uses in Education; Developing Nations; Diversity (Student); Educational Change; Educational Finance; *Educational Quality; Educational Research; Educational Technology; Expenditure per Student; Foreign Countries; Governance; Labor Market; Public Schools; *Secondary Education; Teacher Competencies; Thinking Skills IDENTIFIERS *Caribbean; *Latin America; Reform Efforts ABSTRACT This paper synthesizes the issues, problems, research, and current best practice in secondary education in Latin America andthe Caribbean. Overall, Latin America and the Caribbean enroll much lower percentages of school age children in secondary education than the region's chief competitors, and the region's secondary education is inadequate by international standards. Secondary vocational education is usually low prestige, underfunded, and inadequately linked to the labor