The World Bank, Jan 17 2013:

WASHINGTON, January 17th, 2013 – Some 5.7 million students will benefit from quality public education and more transparent school-principal selection processes in 40,000 Peruvian schools. These are just some of the results expected from a US$25 million loan to Peru’s Ministry of Education (MINEDU) approved today by the World Bank Board of Directors.

Peru has made great strides in terms of educational coverage; however, in quality terms, it still has a way to go. The performance of Peruvian students in both national and international assessments is well below expectations. In the last PISA evaluation of 2009, organized by the OECD and undertaken on a nation-wide sample of 15-year old students, Peru ranked among the last in math, reading comprehension and science among 65 countries participating worldwide, and also exhibited wider socio-economic gaps. Click here to read the full article.