During great part of the XX Century, students (specially collegians) were considered as the paradigm of youth. This was because of the great visibility of student movements, participating of big political and social dynamics on most part of Latin American countries.

But the recent changes on the last decades, on the dynamics of  average and superior education, that in almost every countries of the region implied a substantive extension of matriculation (made massive) caused by the income of a great contingent of middle and lower class young people who traditionally did not accede to this educative levels (made heterogeneous) change the situation radically.

Nowadays, nobody speaks anymore about THE student movements (in singular and in capital letters) instead it is common to make reference -more and more everyday- to THE student movements (in plural and in small letters) trying to reflect the enormous disparity of specific existent situations, among students from public and private establishments, elitists and popular, etc.

A separate chapter are having –in this frame- secondary students (or average education) that have advanced notoriously lately regarding to organization and active public presence, claiming for more and better conditions in order to  process their journey and permanence on the educative system, despite the many difficulties about it. A great presence of young women, in many of this organized new expressions, show the “new sensitivities” about this issue.

In any case, the dynamic of this important sector of young people, is still a prior issue on the public politics agenda and still have a relevant place on the priorities of researches and studies on youth that are being performed regularly on different countries of the region.

In this section of the Portal, we will try to reflect –indeed- this dynamics, providing information and the corresponding analysis, in the best possible way. We are sure that –this way- we will be contributing with technical and political reflection about it, and encouraging the design and implementation of public politics in the future, aiming to the improve the formation of human resources and citizen participation.