The state and public education in Latin America / Carlos Alberto Torres and Adriana Puiggrós -- Financing education for democracy in Latin America / Ernesto Schiefelbein -- Education policy and human development in the Latin American city / José Luis Coraggio -- Neoliberal education policies in Latin America / Robert F. Arnove -- Dewey under South American skies / Inés Dussel and Marcelo Caruso -- Contemporary Brazilian education / Moacir Gadotti -- The problems of
the decentralization of education / Sylvia Schmelkes -- Teacher education reform initiatives / Maria Teresa Tatto and Eduardo Velez -- The paradox of the autonomy of Argentine universities / Marcela Mollis -- University restructuring in Argentina / Daniel Schugurensky -- Women, education, and the state of Cuba / Sheryl L. Lutjens -- Freire, Frei, and literacy texts in Chile, 1964-1970 / Robert Austin -- Popular education and the reconstruction of El Salvador / Jack L.