“En un país en crecimiento como México, para cualquier estudiante, la educación superior es una muy Buena inversión”

18 April 2016 | El Norte Universidad Metropolitana de Monterrey organiza el Foro Educación Superior El Lic. Héctor Sepúlveda, Rector de la UMM, dio la bienvenida, agradeció la participación de los conferencistas y puntualizó que el objetivo del evento es abrir un espacio anual que se consolide como referente nacional en la discusión de temasContinue reading ““En un país en crecimiento como México, para cualquier estudiante, la educación superior es una muy Buena inversión””

Read This

READ this: Why we must measure literacy at an early age SUBMITTED BY HARRY A. PATRINOS  ON MON, 04/04/2016 From the World Bank’s Education for Global Development blog A couple of years ago Room to Read, a non-profit organization for improving literacy and gender equality in education in the developing world, implored viewers to try toContinue reading “Read This”

Weighing the benefits of senior high school in the Philippines

Weighing the benefits of senior high school in the Philippines http://blogs.worldbank.org/education/weighing-benefits-senior-high-school-philippines SUBMITTED BY HARRY A. PATRINOS ON MON, 03/14/2016 CO-AUTHORS: SAMER AL-SAMARRAI Students walk by a school offering senior high school levels. Photo Credit: Samer Al-Samarrai/World Bank In June 2016, approximately 1.5 million children across the Philippines will walk through school gates for the firstContinue reading “Weighing the benefits of senior high school in the Philippines”

The effects of delaying tracking in secondary school: evidence from the 1999 education reform in Poland

The effects of delaying tracking in secondary school: evidence from the 1999 education reform in Poland Maciej Jakubowski, Harry Anthony Patrinos, Emilio Ernesto Porta & Jerzy Wiśniewski Education Economics (2016) Delaying tracking, extending students’ exposure to a general academic education and increasing their time on task on basic competences (reading, mathematics) could improve academic outcomes.Continue reading “The effects of delaying tracking in secondary school: evidence from the 1999 education reform in Poland”

Robots: What can workers do to protect themselves from automation?

Robots: What can workers do to protect themselves from automation? “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” Stephen Hawking. Photo: The Terminator / Orion Pictures Stephen Hawking has warned that artificial intelligence could end the human race. The development of intelligent machines could pose a major threat to humanity.  Sometime inContinue reading “Robots: What can workers do to protect themselves from automation?”

Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling around the World

Comparable Estimates of #Returns to #Schooling around the @WorldBank http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2014/09/04/000158349_20140904084836/Rendered/PDF/WPS7020.pdf … Claudio E. Montenegro World Bank and Department of Economics, University of Chile Harry Anthony Patrinos World Bank Rates of return to investments in schooling have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several attempts toContinue reading “Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling around the World”