Economia
"No longer bottom of the class: weak and wasteful schools hold Brazil back. But at least they are getting less bad.
IN 2000 the OECD, a group of mostly rich countries, decided to find out how much children were learning at school. At the time, only half of Brazilian children finished primary education. Three out of four adults were functionally illiterate and more than one in ten totally so. And yet few Brazilians seemed to care. Rich parents used private schools; poor ones knew too little to understand how badly their children were being taught at the public ones. The president at the time, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, saw a chance to break their complacency. Though Brazil is not a member of the OECD he entered it in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Brazil came last.
A decade on, it is clear that the shock was salutary. On December 7th the fourth PISA study was published, and Brazil showed solid gains in all three subjects tested: reading, mathematics and science (see chart 1). The test now involves 65 countries or parts of them. Brazil came 53rd in reading and science. The OECD is sufficiently impressed that it has selected Brazil as a case study of “Encouraging lessons from a large federal system”.(continua no site da revista)
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Economia
Artigo da The Economist sobre a Educação no Brasil
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"No longer bottom of the class: weak and wasteful schools hold Brazil back. But at least they are getting less bad.
IN 2000 the OECD, a group of mostly rich countries, decided to find out how much children were learning at school. At the time, only half of Brazilian children finished primary education. Three out of four adults were functionally illiterate and more than one in ten totally so. And yet few Brazilians seemed to care. Rich parents used private schools; poor ones knew too little to understand how badly their children were being taught at the public ones. The president at the time, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, saw a chance to break their complacency. Though Brazil is not a member of the OECD he entered it in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Brazil came last.
A decade on, it is clear that the shock was salutary. On December 7th the fourth PISA study was published, and Brazil showed solid gains in all three subjects tested: reading, mathematics and science (see chart 1). The test now involves 65 countries or parts of them. Brazil came 53rd in reading and science. The OECD is sufficiently impressed that it has selected Brazil as a case study of “Encouraging lessons from a large federal system”.(continua no site da revista)
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After a decade of fast growth and rising incomes, Brazil has hit a rough patch that is testing its government’s ability to manage the economy and satisfy the growing aspirations of its people. President Dilma Rousseff, who faces elections next year,...
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Brazil ex-first lady Cardoso dies By Gary DuffyBBC News, Sao Paulo Many tributes have been paid to Ruth Cardoso, wife of Brazil's former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who has died aged 77. She had earlier been released from hospital after...
- Previdência
— BRAZIL: Brazil is ranked second-best of 20 countries evaluated by the Center for Strategic and International Studies for maintaining retirees' incomes. But it's only No. 18 in its ability to pay for its retirement system over the long term....
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Quem não deve, não teme? Brazil under nuclear microscope -- again Trechos:Last week Brazil and the United Nation's nuclear agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, clashed over the terms of inspections at the Resende plant...
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Exclusivo: Inclusão pode estar excluindo Falando em educação privada complementado a pública, o autor do artigo Private organizations now supplement public schooling diz que: Ironically, the exclusion may have been fomented by inclusion. Teachers...