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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Main Authors:	Bruns, Barbara, Evans, David, Luque, Javier
Format:	Publication
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	CHILDREN'S EARLY DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION QUALITY GAP REFORMS RESOURCES STUDENT LEARNING TEACHER INCENTIVES TEACHER PERFORMANCE
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spelling	okr-10986-23832021-04-23T14:02:01Z Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil : The Next Agenda Bruns, Barbara Evans, David Luque, Javier CHILDREN'S EARLY DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION QUALITY GAP REFORMS RESOURCES STUDENT LEARNING TEACHER INCENTIVES TEACHER PERFORMANCE 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. 2012-03-19T09:05:16Z 2012-03-19T09:05:16Z 2012 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333037_20111208235751 978-0-8213-8854-9 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2383 English Direction in Development ; human development CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication Latin America & Caribbean South America America Brazil
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topic	CHILDREN'S EARLY DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION QUALITY GAP REFORMS RESOURCES STUDENT LEARNING TEACHER INCENTIVES TEACHER PERFORMANCE
spellingShingle	CHILDREN'S EARLY DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION QUALITY GAP REFORMS RESOURCES STUDENT LEARNING TEACHER INCENTIVES TEACHER PERFORMANCE Bruns, Barbara Evans, David Luque, Javier Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil : The Next Agenda
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description	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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author	Bruns, Barbara Evans, David Luque, Javier
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title	Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil : The Next Agenda
title_short	Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil : The Next Agenda
title_full	Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil : The Next Agenda
title_fullStr	Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil : The Next Agenda
title_full_unstemmed	Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil : The Next Agenda
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