Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America
The key to sustained and equitable development in Latin America is high quality education for all. However, coalitions favoring quality reforms in education are usually weak because parents are dispersed, business is not interested, and much of the middle class has exited public education. In Routes...
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| description | The key to sustained and equitable development in Latin America is high quality education for all. However, coalitions favoring quality reforms in education are usually weak because parents are dispersed, business is not interested, and much of the middle class has exited public education. 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. Several Andean countries and state governments in Brazil achieved notable reform since 2000, though on markedly different trajectories. Although rare, the first bottom-up route to reform was electoral. The second route was more top-down and technocratic, with little support from voters or civil society. Ultimately, by framing education policy in a much broader comparative perspective, Schneider demonstrates that contrary to much established theory, reform outcomes in Latin America depended less on institutions and broad coalitions, but rather—due to the emptiness of the education policy space—on more micro factors like civil society organizations, teacher unions, policy networks, and technocrats. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1663642025-09-02T05:07:51Z Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America Schneider, Ben Ross education reform, teacher union, Ecuador, technocracy, teacher career, civil society, education politics, Chile, Brazil, Peru, clientelism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics The key to sustained and equitable development in Latin America is high quality education for all. However, coalitions favoring quality reforms in education are usually weak because parents are dispersed, business is not interested, and much of the middle class has exited public education. 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. Several Andean countries and state governments in Brazil achieved notable reform since 2000, though on markedly different trajectories. Although rare, the first bottom-up route to reform was electoral. The second route was more top-down and technocratic, with little support from voters or civil society. Ultimately, by framing education policy in a much broader comparative perspective, Schneider demonstrates that contrary to much established theory, reform outcomes in Latin America depended less on institutions and broad coalitions, but rather—due to the emptiness of the education policy space—on more micro factors like civil society organizations, teacher unions, policy networks, and technocrats. 2025-09-02T05:07:51Z 2025-09-02T05:07:51Z 2025-09-01T12:11:51Z 2024 book ONIX_20250901T140837_9780197758861_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105869 9780197758861 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166364 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/105869/1/9780197758861.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780197758854.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780197758854.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 5a64ceb1-759b-4370-8fe6-ad053818f569 9780197758861 216 New York Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT 10.13039/100006919 open access |
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