Abstract:

The theme of this essay is the current manifestation of education and its development prospects in Latin America. The essential purpose is to value education, its status and its main challenges. The comparative method that correlates and integrates a set of variables and indicators that are expressed particularly on the continent, in each country or region is applied. Poverty and exclusion as a determining contextual variable in education noted. This factor appears together with other historical, cultural and political elements. investment in education, quality evaluation of education policies related to the: As a result of the evaluation, advances in education on the continent, as well as their main demands and perspectives of gross development is recognized ICT and the need to stress the importance of teaching in today's society.

Keywords: Latin America; poverty; educational model; educational evaluation; educational quality; ICT.