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This paper examines the barriers to educational achievement
presented by child labour and the formal education systems of
Latin America. Parents put pressure on children to work rather
than study, and historically the formal education systems have no
safeguards to remedy the resulting knowledge gaps. Knowledge
gaps lead to repeated failure in academic courses, which in turn
prompts parents to view education as irrelevant. The paper
examines the various economic-incentive programmes that have
been tried to break this vicious circle and identifies four strategies
for educational imporvement in the region: involving communties,
increasing time available for learning providing bilingual
educaition to serve minorities and indigenous groups and
introducing computers
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