Big Steps in a Big Country : Brazil Makes Fast Progress Toward EFA

dc.creator	World Bank
dc.date	2012-08-13T11:19:20Z
dc.date	2012-08-13T11:19:20Z
dc.date	2003-05
dc.date.accessioned	2016-03-27T23:29:34Z
dc.date.available	2016-03-27T23:29:34Z
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10385
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/10986/10385
dc.description	By the year 2000, Brazil had almost achieved universal primary enrollment for Grades 1-4, and more than 50 million Brazilians were enrolled in the country's education system. From 1970 to 2000, 32 million additional students entered school, two-thirds of them during the last two decades. Over a five-year period (1996-2000), while primary schooling continued to make important gains, enrollments in secondary and tertiary education in Brazil grew at the astonishing rate of 43% and 44% respectively. Many developing countries face problems with age-grade distortion. Largely because of high repetition rates, age-grade distortion in Brazil is about 10 percent country-wide, and almost 40 percent in the northeastern part of the country. An innovative program called Accelerated Learning has been implemented to address this issue. Under this program, the federal government finances the creation of special classes for over-aged students with the objective of reducing the age-grade distortion and freeing up space in public schools. By year 2000 there were already 1.2 million students enrolled in accelerated learning programs in all Brazilian states.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Washington, DC
dc.relation	Education Notes
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 Unported
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.rights	World Bank
dc.subject	ADULT ILLITERACY
dc.subject	AGED
dc.subject	BASIC EDUCATION
dc.subject	DECENTRALIZATION
dc.subject	DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subject	EDUCATION INDICATORS
dc.subject	EDUCATION SECTOR
dc.subject	EDUCATION SYSTEM
dc.subject	EDUCATION SYSTEMS
dc.subject	EDUCATIONAL REFORM
dc.subject	ENROLLMENT
dc.subject	ENROLLMENT RATE
dc.subject	ENROLLMENT RATES
dc.subject	EQUITABLE ACCESS
dc.subject	FAMILIES
dc.subject	FUNDAMENTAL EDUCATION
dc.subject	GROSS ENROLLMENT
dc.subject	INCOME LEVELS
dc.subject	LEADERSHIP
dc.subject	LEARNING
dc.subject	LEARNING OUTCOMES
dc.subject	LEARNING PROGRAMS
dc.subject	LOCAL LEVEL
dc.subject	MATHEMATICS
dc.subject	NET ENROLLMENT
dc.subject	PARITY
dc.subject	POLICY REFORM
dc.subject	PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAMS
dc.subject	PRIMARY EDUCATION
dc.subject	PRIMARY ENROLLMENT
dc.subject	PRIMARY SCHOOL
dc.subject	PRIMARY SCHOOLING
dc.subject	PUBLIC SCHOOLS
dc.subject	READING
dc.subject	REPETITION
dc.subject	SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS
dc.subject	SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
dc.subject	SCHOOLING
dc.subject	SCHOOLS
dc.subject	SECONDARY EDUCATION
dc.subject	SECONDARY LEVEL
dc.subject	TEACHER
dc.subject	TEACHER DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	TEACHER EDUCATION
dc.subject	TEACHER MOTIVATION
dc.subject	TEACHERS
dc.subject	TEACHING
dc.subject	TEACHING PROFESSION
dc.subject	TEST SCORES EDUCATION SYSTEMS
dc.subject	SECONDARY EDUCATION
dc.subject	TERTIARY EDUCATION
dc.subject	GENDER INEQUALITY
dc.subject	EDUCATION SECTOR
dc.subject	HIGHER EDUCATION
dc.subject	BASIC EDUCATION
dc.subject	DECENTRALIZATION OF EDUCATION
dc.subject	TEACHERS
dc.title	Big Steps in a Big Country : Brazil Makes Fast Progress Toward EFA
dc.type	Publications & Research :: Brief
dc.type	Publications & Research
dc.coverage	Latin America & Caribbean
dc.coverage	Brazil