A follow-up study of the first students to finish the Third Cycle (grades 8, 9, and 10) under El Salvador's Educational Reform Program interviewed 400 students. It assessed their educational and career plans, examined the Reform's influence on them, and measured their attitudes toward their experience. Results showed that 90 percent were…

Educational Reform in El Salvador is an intensive effort to upgrade and expand the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades. It is built around instructional television, but also includes curricular revision, the retraining of teachers, new classroom materials, and other important elements. 1971 was the third year of the Reform. Two developments made…

Instructional television played a significant role in El Salvador's efforts to reform grades 7, 8 and 9 of its educational system. The goals of the reform were to increase enrollments, eliminate tuition in public schools, lower failure rates, retrain teachers, improve the curriculum, and train students for service and technical careers. Changes in…