Meeting development goals: evidence from the Civil Society Education Fund

In recent years, the Civil Society Education Fund has supported national education civil society coalitions (NECs) in low-income countries so that they put pressure on governments and donors to implement the Education for All agenda and the Millennium Development Goal on education. This article draws on literature on global governance as well as on an extensive evaluation of the CSEF to explore the actual contribution of this initiative to the activity of NECs. The article highlights the achievements and shortcomings of the CSEF and includes a set of practical recommendations on the role of global civil society in international development processes

The new Other Catalans at school: decreasing unevenness but increasing isolation

This study estimates the trends of school segregation in Catalonia (Spain) between 2001 and 2006. Currently, new immigration has reopened the debate about the ‘Other Catalans’ triggered by concern with the integration of the incoming population. An ‘intersectional approach’ to social divisions suggests that class and ethnic school segregation responds to strategic parental choice and informal policy arrangements. School segregation indices report a more even distribution in most localities, reinforced isolation of ‘foreign students’ in a few public schools in some large cities and a persistent divide between more comprehensive public schools and selective private‐dependent schools in a variety of towns. According to these findings, the analytical approach points at some clues to make sense of impact of distributive policies, the influence of policy contradictions and the success of mobilisation and lobbying political strategies

Las políticas sobre educación básica en américa latina: las perspectivas de los organismos internacionales

RESUMEN: Este artículo busca contribuir a la comprensión de cómo se estructura actualmente la agenda de reforma educativa en América Latina. Uno de los principales instrumentos que utilizan las organizaciones internacionales en la definición de la agenda y del discurso de las políticas sobre educación es la difusión de documentos de diagnóstico y propuestas de mejoras. El artículo analiza los posicionamientos de un conjunto de documentos producidos y/o promovidos, durante el período 2012-2014, por algunos de los principales organismos que participan en la cooperación técnica y financiera en América Latina. Para ello compara las perspectivas de análisis, los balances, los desafíos y las recomendaciones que los documentos presentan sobre las políticas de educación básica implementadas en la región desde comienzos de la década de 2000