Word: venezuela
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Three Harvard professors will help the government of Venezuela develop an experimental program to improve the quality of Venezuelan schools...
Dominguez, who visited schools in Barquisimeta, Venezuela, last April, said yesterday that Venezuelan educational quality is "very uneven," and added that "there was a very heavy emphasis on memorization." The experimental program is designed to stress instead language use, reading skills, writing ability, and creativity...
...Nickerson of Bolt, Baranek and Newman, a Cambridge consulting firm that will also work on the project, yesterday emphasized the experimental nature of the project, but also said he is optimistic. "The literacy rate in Venezuela is quite high, relative to other Latin American countries, and is rising quickly. This is a good sign," he said...
Dominguez said he is also optimistic about the project because Venezuela's oil wealth allows it to devote large sums to educational projects...
Indeed, it is this peaceful transition that the United States should encourage, for it is equally absurd to suggest that all revolutionaries in Latin America are either Sovietstooges or completely unjustified in their actions. Oil-rich Venezuela has realized this, and has used its social conscience both at home and abroad to improve the status of human rights throughout the region. A coherent U.S. foreign policy in Latin America should be firmly grounded in cooperation with Venezuela--and perhaps newly rich Mexico, which appears to be taking a similar approach--to improve the conditions of the Latin American people, rather...