[Multidimensional Qualities to Improve Education.]

Overview & Synopsis

This bulletin contains five essays on the theme of expanding the challenge of improving the quality of education to encompass the curricular, administrative, institutional, and teaching levels. The articles include: (1) "Educational Assessment Systems in Latin America: A Review of Issues and Recent Experience" (Robin Horn; Laurence Wolf; Eduardo Velez); (2) "Programme to Improve the Quality of Primary Schools in Poor Areas: A Chilean Experience" (MINEDUC Chile); (3) "Bilingual Education Beyond National Frontiers, Bolivian-Peruvian Cooperation" (Luis Enrique Lopez; Lucia D'Emilio); (4) "New Assignments for Technical and Professional High School Education: Guidelines and Strategies" (Maria de Ibarrola); and (5) "Functional Illiteracy Requirements in Youth and Adults: Education and Work in a Small Developing State" (Olabisi Kuboni). (EH)