Building Student Capacity in Peru
Unlike in many Western nations, the most pressing issues students in Peru confront are not which career to pursue or lack of motivation. Rather, as in many struggling communities worldwide, a deficient basic education and lack of financial resources to pay for tuition curtails the prospects of all but the most prosperous students. For this post, Peru Country Manager Daniel Salazar examines low-income students’ educational aspirations through testimonies from students and alumni from Sagrada Familia, the children’s community Global Volunteers serves in Peru. Problems With Basic Education The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study, organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), measures academic performance of 15-year-olds worldwide on math, science, and reading. In the last PISA study carried in 78 countries during 2018-2019, Peru showed some of the worst academic performance worldwide. Those weren’t particularly bad… (Search hits: 6 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 722.15)