/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11827676
I don't know wtf you are talking about, Argentina has had universal literacy since the 1960s (Source: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/literacy.htm)) which was otherwise unheard of in South America at the time. In fact it was quite an achievement for a country that in the 1930s was receiving mostly illiterate Spanish and Italian peasant immigrants literally the refuse of Europe were welcomed and brought up to a high level of education and middle class Western living standards in a generation by the 1960s. It was quite a lauded and advanced education system at the time, producing several Nobel prize winners and such.

The real downfall of Argentine education started in the 1990s when the school system was "federalized", instead of a unified national school system as had been the norm until then, the national government handed over control of the school system to each province but without the proper funding and the whole system unraveled.

That said, while I agree the school system here has been wrecked, I don't fully trust PISA's reliability as per the figures in >>11797945, we have the highest school enrollment rates in South America and don't exclude immigrants either so I don't see how it's comparable with some South American countries where half the kids are not in school.

I mean take a look at pic related, is it really comparable? Nationwide school results with most kids enrolled in schools vs some elitist system where only urban middle class kids are being tested (ie. Peru) ?