Sheltering Kids in Slums with a One-Stop Center Series: A Three Part Series: PART 1: April 15ways to Keep Rural Children in School PART 2: TODAY Urban Renewal through Day Care; High-Tech Teacher Training PART 3: April 29 Embracing Minority and Immigrant Students

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Want to see the face of education's future? Meet Maria Lucia Kamache. One part principal, one part mom, she runs a one-stop community center in Rio that turns a slum into a neighborhood. In Argentina, teachers embrace immigrant kids, even writing a dictionary to help understand them . Brazil boosts teacher quality with a live, interactive TV show that even reaches schools in the jungle. All of these efforts aim to create a wider sense of community and a more expansive definition of education to help carry Latin America's schools into a new century.

In the courtyard of a former juvenile-detention center, a group of children are laughing and clapping as they …