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Pablo Pizzurno (July 11, 1865 - March 24, 1940) was an Argentinian educator who laid the foundations of the national primary education.
Pizzurno received his master's degree and began teaching in the Normal School in 1882. Two years later he became a school principal in Buenos Aires and integrated the following year at the National College of Buenos Aires. He served in several institutions at once, creating a chair of pedagogy in school subprefects and helpers and lecturing and writing about education in various publications.
In 1887 he was named director of the School of Buenos Aires, and in 1889 he was sent by the National Council on Education to the International Exhibition in Paris. He used the trip to become familiar with the educational techniques used in Europe, which he detailed in several reports and then applied to the creation in 1890 of the National Institute of Primary and Secondary.
In 1893 he founded the magazine The New School Teaching; that vehicle would reform plans such as introducing physical education as part of the curriculum that year. In 1897 he was elected to serve on the commission for renewal of curricula of schools in Buenos Aires, and in 1898 he was appointed inspector of schools under national administration. In 1900, he became the inspector general.
In 1902, Pizzurno presented the report to the Ministry of Education, detailing all study plans and methods applied in the country to date and proposing a comprehensive reform. He worked with the Ministry for the next 30 years, while continuing his work as inspector and writing and teaching.
It is commonly believed that the headquarters of the Ministry of Education is named after Argentine Pizzurno palace in his honor, but the building is called Sarmiento Palace. What is called Pizzurno is the little street that is in front of the headquarters.
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and President of Argentina. His writing spanned a wide range of genres and topics, from journalism to autobiography, to political philosophy and history. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century Argentina. He was particularly concerned with educational issues and was also an important influence on the region's literature.
Education in state institutions is at the initial, primary, secondary and tertiary levels and in the undergraduate university level. Private education is paid, although in some cases state subsidies support its costs. According to studies by UNESCO, education in Argentina and Uruguay guarantee equality to have institutional features that hinder the commercialization of education, as well as Finland has characteristics that favor multiethnic population education and special education, education favors Argentina equality. According to the last census, the illiteracy rate is 1.9%, the second lowest in Latin America. In the last decade, Argentina has created nine new universities, while the outflow of university students increased by 68%.
Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union and two-time President of Argentina, who served his first term from 1916 to 1922 and his second term from 1928 to 1930. He was the first president elected democratically by means of the secret and mandatory male suffrage established by the Sáenz Peña Law of 1912. His activism was the prime impetus behind the passage of that law in Argentina.
Recoleta is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, located in the northern part of the city, by the Río de la Plata. The area is perhaps best known to be the home of the distinguished Recoleta Cemetery. It is a traditional upper-class and conservative neighborhood with some of the priciest real estate in the city, known for Paris-style townhouses, lavish former palaces and posh boutiques.
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The Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza is a high school that depends on the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). It has approximately 1000 students, and it is located in Libertad 555 street, Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina. As it is affiliated with the University, it has an admission process that lasts one year and consists of an admission course, which involves multiple exams in Mathematics, History, Language and Geography. Almost all of its faculty teaches in the UBA, and physical education used to be performed at the Universidad de Buenos Aires campus, in Ciudad Universitaria, until 2016. One of its characteristics is that there is no need to do the CBC, because it offers its students the possibility of attending an extra 6th year in the career they have chosen.
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Callao Avenue is one of the principal thoroughfares in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Sarmiento Palace, commonly known as the Pizzurno Palace, is an architectural landmark in the Recoleta section of Buenos Aires and the location of the Argentine Ministry of Education.
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The Ministry of Education of Argentina was a ministry of the national executive power that oversaw education policies on all educational levels, alongside the governments of the twenty-three provinces of Argentina and the City of Buenos Aires.
The Goethe-Schule Buenos Aires belongs to the Goethe School Association, a nonprofit Civil Association that brings together the parents of students. Since it is a German School Abroad (DAS), it is sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany. It is a recognized cultural exchange school that teaches and promotes the German language. It is located in the town of Boulogne, in the province of Buenos Aires, 20 km north of the center of the City of Buenos Aires and includes three levels: kindergarten, primary school and secondary school. The school has more than 1500 students in the three levels. A fourth section of the school is the Humboldt Academy, an educational institution dedicated to teaching foreign languages, mainly German, where courses for adults and children are taught outside of the school’s regular classes.
Elina González Acha de Correa Morales was an Argentine educator, scientist and women's rights activist. In her early days, she was among the first graduates of the Argentine Normal School and was a painter, winning international recognition for both her textbooks and paintings. She was the driving force behind the founding of the Geographical Society of Argentina and served as its president from its establishment until her death. She and her husband, Argentina's first renowned sculptor, Lucio Correa Morales were defenders of the land claims of the Ona indigenous people.
Nicolás Barrios-Lynch (1910–1986) was an Argentine educator and pioneer of the rural libraries movement across South America. After his teaching career, he became a dedicated promoter of public and rural libraries, and the inclusion of foreign books and texts of Argentine original peoples literature in public education, spreading commercial education for entrepreneurship of educational tourism, became Director of Rural Education programs at the Ministry of Public Transportation, and at Argentina's Ministry of Education contributing in philanthropic initiatives for the sustainability of the National Library of Teachers located at the Sarmiento Palace.
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Gustavo Beliz is an Argentine politician and expert in global governance.
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