“While Latin America has seen a significant increase in access to education, educational disparities and school dropout rates remain serious and persistent problems that particularly affect children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds,” said Dr. Denise Vaillant in the publication titled Trends and Challenges: Interventions to Recover School Learning.
The dean of the Institute of Education at Universidad ORT Uruguay that these have been some of the “major challenges facing Latin American education systems in the 20th century,” challenges that continue to persist in the 21st century.
In *Trends and Challenges: Interventions to Recover School Learning*, Vaillant explores the issue of educational lag while also focusing on learning recovery programs in Latin America.
Finally, the publication—published by the Inter-American Development Bank—discusses the use of technology to improve learning outcomes, while emphasizing the importance of tutoring and support in ensuring the success of remedial programs.