Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil
The Next Agenda
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Abbreviations
- Executive Summary
- Chapter 1: Brazilian Education 1995–2010: Transformation
- Chapter 2: Brazilian Basic Education: Meeting the Challenge?
- Chapter 3: Brazilian Basic Education 2011–2021: The Next Agenda
- Annex 1. Delivering Results for Children in Rio’s Favelas: Escola Municipal Affonso Varzea
- Annex 2. Delivering Results for Children in Northeast Brazil: Pernambuco Escola Estadual Tomé Francisco
- Annex 3. Access to and Quality of Early Childhood Development in Brazil Compared with the OECD and LAC Countries
- Annex 4. Global Evidence on Universal Versus Targeted Early Childhood Development Coverage
- Annex 5. Skills Composition in the Brazilian Labor Market
- Annex 6. Tables
- Boxes
- Figures
- Tables