Researchers say the path to improve Brazilian schools is to reward the knowledge. The system is too restrict, only 9% of the youths go to college.
Bad news for the São Paulo's population: São Paulo is the most violent city of the world. Now, better news: this sad leading was highlighted on the news only because it was announced by an international organization; the data are old and wrong.
The Brazilian "Supremo Tribunal Federal" (STF) has sent a note to those which still believe the "mensalão" didn't exist: yes, it did exist.
Yesterday, the former secretary made his first public apparition to talk about security public policies, during seminar about crime reduction in Colombian cities at the Instituto Fernand Braudel.
The congress is going to vote the first minimum wages for teachers. However, it lacks a system to reward good teachers and punish those who don't teach.
The historian Nathan Dudley came back to Brazil, invited by the Instituto Fernand Braudel, to know the São Paulo Schools' network.
This report, exhibited on Jornal da Cultura tells the success history of a school on Jardim Angela, in the suburbs of São Paulo. Interviews com Patricia Mota Guedes, Institute's project coordinator, and Nathan Dudley, director of a school in New York which came to Brazil invited by the Instituto.
Faster growth, low inflation, expanding credit and liberal trade are helping to create a new middle class.
On today's night, Eduardo Giannetti da Fonseca will be starting a new panel on fantástico. His great comprehensibility explains why he can easily reach improbable publics. An example: invited by the Instituto Fernand Braudel, he promoted readings of Adam Smith to students of the public schools in Diadema and São Bernardo.
The government has returned as investor agent on the economy. This movement, started on the first term of Lula's government, is taking a better defined aspect in this second term.
Series of articles from the Instituto Fernand Braudel researchers about the school reform in New York and its applicability in the Brazil's context.
R$ 831 millions were cut from the resources to defense and public security. The results: air traffic chaos and attack of criminal organizations.
For the first time in history, a majority of the world's population now lives in cities. In the developing world, the names of vast new megacities - Dhaka, Lagos, Calcutta, Jakarta - are synonymous with human misery. But São Paulo is seeking to show that a megacity can work.
The plans of the minister Fernand Haddad are the first with objectives and a clear system to evaluate the results. Why is this the major hope to the Brazil schools?
The failure of schools is challenging the political conscience and the institutions of many societies. Why can't many of them to simple arithmetic exercises? What is the relationship between ignorance and social disorder? How can we operate a complex society without a literate population? What will our societies be like in 10 or 20 years if children fail to learn?
Brazilians find new ways of fight against unemployment.
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"Director of the Brazil Institute Paulo Sotero stressed the importance of education to development and situated Brazil in terms of educational achievements. He praised the country's successful efforts at universalizing basic education and expanding access to secondary education, but noted that the quality of this education is quite poor. However, progress is being made at the local level, he asserted. One such example is the work sponsored and supported by the Instituto Fernand Braudel de Economia Mundial."
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High income and access to informations grant success to small business which haven't had formal education.