Tag: education
A Lesson Brazil Is Learning: We Are the Wealth
Recently, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) held a meeting in Cairo, Egypt, to ...
Brazil Got the Olympics. Now We Need a Pact to Attune Us to the 21st Century
President Lula, Governor Sérgio Cabral, Mayor Eduardo Paes and Carlos Nuzman, the president of ...
Number of College Students Doubles in Brazil, But It’s Still Only 14%
The rate of Brazilian youths enrolled in universities the last 10 years has doubled, ...
Brazilians Who Believe in Change Should Be Happy for the Bearers of Utopias
It appears that the presidential candidates for the second round of elections in 2010 ...
Without a Revolution in Education Brazil Will Never Go to the Moon
We commemorated two anniversaries on the same day, July 16. In the United States, ...
Brazil: Pizzaiolo? You Should Mind Your Tongue, Mr. President!
Before he assumed the presidency, President Lula had dinner at my house more than ...
Improving Brazil’s Public Schools: Nine Recommendations
In the article, “The Paradox of the Good Student: Race and the Brazilian Educational ...
Not Oil But Knowledge Is the Resource that Can Save Brazil
Only two letters separate “pre-salt” from “pre-school,” but between these two options is an ...
Education Secretary in Brazil Gets F in Geography and Pink Slip
In Brazil, the governor of the richest Brazilian state, São Paulo, sacked the Secretary ...
Brazilian Couple Convicted for Homeschooling Their Two Kids
Cleber and Bernadeth Nunes from Timóteo, a city 196 km (122 miles) from Belo ...
