Tag: education
Decade After Decade, Brazil Stumbles from One Missed Opportunity to Another
When it abolished slavery in 1888 with the Lei Áurea, or Golden Law, Brazil ...
If the End of Apartation is Impossible Then Brazil Is Impossible
At this beginning of the century, no ideological map exists, only ruins of "isms." ...
16 Million Brazilian Kids Don’t Go to School. Reasons: Lack of School or Interest
Lack of documents and illness are the main reasons that 7 million Brazilian children ...
Brazil Wants do End Illiteracy Among 3 Million Youngsters
Brazil’s Ministry of Education (MEC) announced that this year the Literate Brazil program will ...
Brazil’s School Stipend Has Become a Vote-Buying Scheme
For a long time now Brazil has paid for scholarships so that university graduates ...
In Brazil, Basic Education Gets Only the Crumbs of Public Money
Objective measures of the cognitive ability of students in the Brazilian education system have ...
Brazil: Self-Sufficient in Oil, Insufficient in Quality of Life
At the same time as they are announcing Brazil’s achievement of oil self-sufficiency, the ...
Number of Brazilian Indians Attending Schools Grows to 164,000
Indigenous school education in Brazil expanded 40% in the last three years. There were ...
Quotas Are the Brazilian Way to Keep Things as They’ve Always Been
Recently a young black man asked me if I saw a relationship between race ...
Minimum Mandatory Schooling in Brazil Rises to 9 Years
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will sign into law a bill raising ...
