“Moving between regional and hemispheric frameworks, this important and highly original volume closely analyzes the educational landscapes of Central America and the Caribbean that are seldom placed in relation to one another, enabling us to see how in-country politics as well as intra-regional and global forces have impacted the trajectories of schools, universities, and alternative spaces of learning in the region. From local schools to national curricula and global education design, this volume uses a political economy of education approach to expertly reveal how underdevelopment, dependency, and country inequities become hardened through elite-led development, privatization, and divestment, to deepening social problems and frustrating social change. These ongoing dynamics, to which educators, students, and their families have routinely challenged, resisted, and sought to transform, nuances our understanding of social exclusion, inequality, and educational processes in the region, resituating education’s principal role in producing the Central America and Caribbean of today.” Jorge E. Cuéllar, Dartmouth College