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Francia: ¿la reforma Macron de las grandes escuelas?
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Eric Posner, Libros recientes sobre meritocracia en USA
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OCDE Panorama de la Educación 2019
By Marie-Hélène Doumet Senior Analyst, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills Education at a Glance report provides a comprehensive overview of education systems in OECD member and partner countries, including detailed indicators across all levels of education –...
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¿Existe el mérito y hay meritocracia?
Does meritocracy stall social mobility, entrench an undeserving elite, and undermine trust in higher education? Joan Wong for The Chronicle September 13, 2019 That seems to be the emerging bipartisan consensus. “On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up...
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UIS Releases New Education Data and SDG 4 Indicators for 2018 School Year 13/09/2019 Focus on out-of-school children New data on the world’s out-of-school children reveal little or no progress for more than a decade, with about 258 million children, adolescents and...
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La prohibición de conocer como principio educativo
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