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‘We students need your patience’

I will never forget the moment in March 2020 when they passed out the printed announcement at the Liceo de Uvita, telling us that...

Learning liberated: The movement for innovation in education in Costa Rica

The first thing that strikes you as you enter HeartSong Community of Free Learners is how different it looks and feels from a conventional...

‘I see our school as an innovation lab’

In a country with significant educational inequality—differences that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, when the lack of connectivity of more than 400,000 students...

Education, pandemic and inequality: transforming risk into opportunity

Why is our March edition, focused on pandemic education in Costa Rica, called "Lessons Learned"? Because as journalists who seek to practice solutions journalism,...

La Niña Gladys, among maps and numbers

She was a teacher the way they used to be. Una niña de antes. La Niña Gladys de Durán (niña, or little girl, was...

Educating in a pandemic: a family tale 1, 2, and 3

What has pandemic education meant to you? Have you experienced it as a parent, teacher, grandparent, onlooker? In Costa Rica, or somewhere else in the...

Our daughters and the poisoned apple

“I want to disappear,” my daughter said. “What?” My hand, resting on her shoulder, tightened its grip instinctively to match the squeeze of my heart. “It’s...

Sexual harassment and the University of Costa Rica

We couldn't close out our February edition, focused on some of the most serious issues that affect the life and death of women in...

Women from Guaitil find ways to preserve their art

Under the shadow of a roof that shelters her from the typical heat of the northwestern province of Guanacaste, Melesia Villafuerte, a 57-year-old artisan,...

My grandmother and the sea

  My grandmother named me, and from that moment she welcomed me as a daughter. When the fog came to her mind, I became the caretaker...
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Tips 506: What to pack for a sustainable and thrifty trip to Costa RIca

Once your trip to Costa Rica is planned, what should you pack—especially if you’re hoping to have an environmentally sustainable trip without wasting money...
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