Xavi Zablah Bukele🇸🇻

Presidente de @nuevasideas.

[Xavi Zablah Bukele🇸🇻 @XZablah]

Quienes estén aquí por intereses personales, favores a otros o dinero, se la ponemos fácil: ¡Váyanse!

Aquí no los queremos, eso no es en lo que creemos.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Poco a poco, todo cambiará…

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Día de la Independencia, desde Los Toles 🇸🇻

[Nuevas Ideas @nuevasideas]

Nuestra historia nos inspira. Nuestra libertad nos une. Nuestro futuro nos pertenece. 🇸🇻

Celebramos a El Salvador y a todos los salvadoreños que, desde cada rincón del país, hacen grande nuestra nación. 💙

¡Feliz Día de la Independencia! 🇸🇻

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Hoy, 7pm 🇸🇻

[Nuevas Ideas @nuevasideas]

Hoy celebramos la libertad que nos une y el orgullo de ser salvadoreños. 🇸🇻

Este 15 de septiembre honramos nuestra historia y miramos hacia adelante con esperanza por el país que seguimos construyendo. 🙌🏻

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Feliz día de la Independencia 🇸🇻

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

2026 World Junior Surfing Championship in El Salvador 🇸🇻

@surfcity @ISAsurfing

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

La seguridad solo fue el inicio 🇸🇻

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

A partir del próximo año, El Salvador invertirá el 8% del PIB en educación.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Los milagros los hace Dios, pero nuestro piloto, primero Dios, sorprenderá al mundo.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Gradually, then suddenly 🇸🇻

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

A few days ago, I shared the World Bank’s summary of the results of the PISA for Schools assessment conducted in 171 Salvadoran public schools participating in our education pilot.

Since then, I have seen some legitimate questions about what these results mean, as well as some claims about what they supposedly don’t mean.

So let’s be very precise.

First, what we NEVER claimed:

1. We never claimed these results represent the national average.

They don’t.

This was not the national PISA assessment.

It was PISA for Schools, conducted specifically in the 171 public schools participating in our pilot program.

That is precisely why my original post said:

“These are the results of our pilot program, which includes AI tutors and has been running in 171 public schools for just over a year.”

A pilot is, by definition, not the entire country.

2. We never claimed that these 171 schools were a statistically representative sample of every school in El Salvador.

They weren’t selected randomly from all Salvadoran schools.

They were selected to participate in the pilot because they were schools where the program could initially be implemented more easily: they had certain basic infrastructure and connectivity requirements, and school communities capable and willing to implement a new educational model.

That creates a selection effect, and it should be acknowledged.

But there is an important distinction here.

These schools were NOT selected because their students had exceptional academic results.

They were not our “best schools.” Not even close.

We didn’t search the country for the highest-performing schools or students and then test them.

They are normal Salvadoran public schools, urban and rural, in different parts of the country, serving ordinary Salvadoran families.

And the characteristics that made implementation easier: connectivity, infrastructure, trained teachers and willingness to adopt the program, are also things that can be replicated in other schools.

They are not innate characteristics of the students.

We can install connectivity.

We can improve infrastructure.

We can train teachers.

We can provide the same technology.

We can deploy the same educational tools.

In fact, that is exactly what we are doing.

3. These results also do NOT prove that AI tutors, by themselves, caused the improvement, although we believe they are a MAJOR part of these results.

Our pilot is broader than that.

It includes changes in teaching, support for teachers and principals, educational materials, monitoring and evaluation, technology, and AI tools, among other interventions.

Our AI tutors and learning platforms are being developed with @grok, @Kira_Learning, and support from I Hate Flying Bugs.

And the broader transformation of our education system is being supported by the @WorldBankGroup, @AgendaCAF, and @el_BID.

All of these interventions can also affect student motivation and engagement.

But that distinction matters: if students become more motivated BECAUSE of the program, that is not necessarily a flaw in the program or an explanation that somehow invalidates the results.

It may be one of the ways the program works.

The same applies to teachers.

For example, the implementation of the AI tutors, including the requirement for teachers to log in and out of the system, coincided with teacher attendance in these schools increasing from 76% to 97%.

If the program causes teachers to attend school more consistently, and that in turn helps students learn more, that is not an advantage that disappears when we scale the program.

It is potentially part of the intervention itself.

Of course, to scientifically isolate the causal effect of AI tutors, teacher attendance, student motivation, technology, training, or any other individual component would require a different experimental design.

Now, what DO these results tell us?

1. They tell us that 1,198 students in 171 ordinary Salvadoran public schools… 🧵1/2👇🏼

[Arturo Villa @arturovilla]

El sistema educativo de El Salvador alcanzando a Suecia y Alemania implementando un programa con inteligencia artificial como tutor en 171 escuelas.

Y pensar que hace unos años apilaban cadáveres y el futuro de los jóvenes era acabar en una pandilla o muertos.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Normalmente no contesto directamente a tanta noticia falsa, pero esta me pareció un buen ejemplo de cómo estos “periodistas” y medios de comunicación MIENTEN descaradamente a sus lectores.

Lean este tuit, que ASEGURA que El Salvador ha transferido sus reservas de bitcoin a un privado, lo cual es TOTALMENTE FALSO.

Aquí está el enlace de la misma institución que EL PAÍS cita como fuente: el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI): https://t.co/o7KtcAItBw

Léanlo. Claramente dice todo lo contrario: que lo único que se transfirió fueron las acciones de Chivo, algo que se ofreció hace año y medio, y NO la Reserva Estratégica de Bitcoin.

De paso pueden leer cómo El Salvador ha logrado un superávit fiscal primario y ha superado todas las expectativas de crecimiento económico gracias a la seguridad y a la confianza de los inversionistas, además de haber alcanzado una reducción significativa de la pobreza, apoyada por mejoras en la eficiencia de los servicios públicos 😘

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Poco a poco, y luego de repente…

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Poco a poco, y luego de repente…

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

And we’ll have some great news on this in a week.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

ASMR

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

The education bet 🇸🇻

La apuesta por la educación 🇸🇻