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● projectScaled · systemic · 1975
Escuela Nueva Activa (Fundación Escuela Nueva)
Pedagogical model born in rural Colombia in the 1970s for multigrade schools: active and cooperative learning, self-directed learning guides, flexible promotion and student government.
illustrative atlas image · Zsofia Hajnal / Unsplash01 The context
Adopted as national policy in the 1980s and sustained since 1987 by Fundación Escuela Nueva Volvamos a la Gente, which took it to more than 16 countries. Quantitative evaluations (Psacharopoulos et al. 1993; McEwan 1998) find higher achievement in mathematics and language and lower dropout compared with conventional rural schools.
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 2 ›
EvidenceThe effectiveness of multigrade schools in ColombiaInternational Journal of Educational Development 18(4), 435-452 · 1998
EvidenceAchievement Evaluation of Colombia's Escuela Nueva: Is Multigrade the Answer?World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 896 / Comparative Education Review 37(3) · 1993