Jorge Iglesias Bloise: ‘We must pay attention to the way in which education is given in our country’

The Ministry of Education (Meduca), through diagnostic evaluations carried out during the first weeks of the school year, confirmed that the children with the greatest lag in learning are in the first levels. It was observed that in the third grades many children still do not know how to read or write, and that in the case of the fourth and fifth grades, they present a low reading comprehension.

Along the same lines, Jorge Iglesias Bloise, education analyst and president of the Fundación Educación en Progreso (Fedupro), affirmed that this lag has been going on for a few decades and the pandemic has exacerbated these deficiencies in student learning.

In his opinion, we must pay attention to the way in which classes are taught in our country, or the way in which classes should be more innovative. “We continue to have an educational system from the 19th century, with teachers from the 20th century and students from the 21st century who have not had a way to be able to cross-cut the learning and teaching method,” he remarked.