The government of Santa Cruz, through the Provincial Council of Education, was present at the 126th session of the Federal Council of Education (CFE), presided over by the nation’s Minister of Education, Jaime Persky, attended by ministers and Ministers. Education of various Provincial Courts of the country.
The assembly met today in the Palacio Sarmiento of the Ministry of Education of the Nation and during it the report of the census test carried out in the year 2022 in 3,686 public, private and rural schools in 23 provinces and the city of Buenos Aires was presented. Its aim was to measure students’ performance in language and maths after the return to face-to-face classes following the pandemic.
As a reflection, the head of the educational portfolio celebrated the intellectual courage and political decision of all ministers to carry out Operation Learn and intervene in the “Books to Learn” program after the pandemic as an achievement Went. , emphasizing that “when it is applied and accompanied, it transforms.”
In this sense, he said that in the assembly it was possible to analyze the results of a learning test conducted on 6th grade students, which aimed to test the impact and objectives achieved by the policy work in a short period of time. Comprehensive programs like Books for Learning, Progressor Scholarships, Teacher Training, and more all work with the aim of strengthening the school trajectory.
With regard to this test, he emphasized the positive impact it had on the weakest areas in relation to reading and its practice, reading comprehension, writing and mathematics, and in this sense, he confirmed that the analysis was carried out on socioeconomic can be verified from Position of low, medium and high fields.
“The pandemic led to greater economic vulnerability, with students ranging from satisfactory or below excellent levels in language and maths,” explained the president of CPE, “but, he also called for investment, directionality, broad policies such as financial inclusion to be materially implemented in this time.” With assured academic accompaniment and with children in school, good results are achieved”.
Finally, María Cecilia Velázquez said that at the meeting she highlighted that in other countries they are still recovering students who have dropped out of school as a result of the pandemic, while in Argentina this is a goal achieved.
As an example, he noted that “in the United States and Belgium reading comprehension appears to have a difficulty factor of forty percent,” he reported.
