How to Explain Brazil’s Hundreds of Thousands of Kids Living in the Streets?

Historians will find it difficult to explain Brazilian society’s great disdain for its children. ...

Improving Brazil’s Public Schools: Nine Recommendations

In the article, “The Paradox of the Good Student: Race and the Brazilian Educational ...

After Decades of Neglect Brazil Starts Studies for 150 New Technical Schools

More than 150 technical schools will start being implemented in Brazil, starting January 2008. ...

Condom in Brazil is known popularly as camisinha, little shirt

If You Are 13 and in School You Are Entitled to a Free Condom in Brazil

After finding out that 45% of Brazil's high-school students have an active sexual life ...

27% of Brazil’s Youth Do Nothing. They Neither Work Nor Study.

About a quarter of Brazilians in the 15 to 24 age group neither work nor ...

Minimum Mandatory Schooling in Brazil Rises to 9 Years

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will sign into law a bill raising ...

A Brazilian School of Revolution and Ideas

{mosimage}Much more than a school, it was a way of life: of militancy, of ...

Half of Brazil’s 34 Million Youth Are Out of School

With over 34 million people between the ages of 15 and 24, Brazil has ...

Why India Is Decades Ahead of Brazil

Besides religiosity, two things distinguish man from the other animals: walking on two legs ...

Brazilian Teachers in the Forefront of War on Drugs

Starting this week, five thousand Brazilian public school teachers are participating in a project ...