Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil : The Next Agenda
Education is improving in Brazil. The average years of education has almost doubled over the last 20 years, as has the proportion of adults who have completed secondary school. Brazil's high school students have improved consistently in math a...
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World Bank
2012
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| Summary: | Education is improving in Brazil. The
average years of education has almost doubled over the last
20 years, as has the proportion of adults who have completed
secondary school. Brazil's high school students have
improved consistently in math and language performance over
the last decade. These gains stem from the federal
government's priority attention to education through
both reforms and resources over the past 15 years. The
progress laid out in this book is impressive and
praiseworthy, but Brazil still trails its competitors in
several of the ways that matter most. Student learning,
while improving, still lags far behind wealthier nations.
Many secondary schools lose the majority of their students
well before graduation. Teachers are drawn from among the
lowest achievers and have few performance incentives, and it
shows in how class time is used. This important book
explores not only the basis for Brazil's progress, but
also what it must do to bridge the remaining quality gap to
a first-rate education for its children. It provides
detailed recommendations for strengthening the performance
of teachers, supporting children's early development,
and reforming secondary education. In Brazil's highly
decentralized basic education system, each level of
government has an integral role to play. |
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