CEHS Students in Costa Rica: Reflections and the work that lies ahead. Read their blog!

10 May 2012    

CEHS Students in Costa Rica: Reflections and the work that lies ahead. Read their blog!

CEHS students and faculty are visiting Costa Rica this summer to explore families, communities, and education in this Central American country. Costa Rica has made a powerful commitment to pubic education, as indicated by a literacy rate of 94.9%. Most Costa Rican communities have both elementary and high schools, and elementary schooling is compulsory. When the Costa Rican army was abolished in 1949, it was said that the “army would be replaced with an army of teachers.”