{"id":967,"date":"2026-04-14T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/?p=967"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:10:50","slug":"que-se-passe-t-il-a-arrecifes-mini-documentaire-sur-leducation-par-andres-rieznik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/que-se-passe-t-il-a-arrecifes-mini-documentaire-sur-leducation-par-andres-rieznik\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Happening in Arrecifes? | A Short Documentary on Education by Andr\u00e9s Rieznik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A country that was once a model for education in Latin America now faces a harsh reality: thousands of boys and girls are finishing elementary school without being able to read or write properly.<br><br>But in 2025, an unexpected event occurred. In Arrecifes, some public schools saw an extraordinary improvement in literacy rates in just 12 weeks, tripling the progress made by other schools in the city.<br><br>What did they do differently? How can such a difference be explained? Will it be possible to replicate this experience throughout Argentina?<br><br>In this mini-documentary, we travel to Arrecifes to retrace the story alongside its protagonists: teachers, families, educational psychologists, and, above all, the children who have rediscovered the joy of reading.<br>The answer leads us to Kalulu, a scientifically grounded literacy method developed from advances in the neuroscience of reading and adapted to the Spanish of the R\u00edo de la Plata by researchers from CONICET, Torcuato Di Tella University, and the Coll\u00e8ge de France.<br><br>What happened in Arrecifes is not just good local news. It is proof that, even in difficult contexts, literacy can progress rapidly when science, teacher commitment, and work with families are combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u00bfQu\u00e9 pas\u00f3 en Arrecifes | Mini-Documental sobre educaci\u00f3n por Andr\u00e9s Rieznik\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qUFMWx6oI-c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d like to join the project and help replicate this initiative in other cities across Argentina and Latin America: https:\/\/kaluluargentina.org <a href=\"https:\/\/kaluluargentina.org\">https:\/\/kaluluargentina.org<\/a><br>This is just the beginning; we need your help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We thank the municipality of Arrecifes and especially the mothers who gave us their time and moved us with their stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video was produced by Andr\u00e9s Rieznik, a neuroscientist and professor at Torcuato Di Tella University.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un pays qui fut autrefois une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence en mati\u00e8re d&rsquo;\u00e9ducation en Am\u00e9rique latine est aujourd&rsquo;hui confront\u00e9 \u00e0 une r\u00e9alit\u00e9 tr\u00e8s dure : des milliers de gar\u00e7ons et de filles terminent l&rsquo;\u00e9cole primaire sans savoir lire ni \u00e9crire correctement. Mais en 2025, un \u00e9v\u00e9nement inattendu s&rsquo;est produit. \u00c0 Arrecifes, certaines \u00e9coles publiques ont enregistr\u00e9 une am\u00e9lioration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"news-keyword":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"news-keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-keyword?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}