Brazil’s education system is being strangled by a president who doesn’t believe in learning. By Vanessa Barbara Contributing Opinion Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — According to President Jair ...

This is especially true when it comes to education. In no surprise to close Brazil watchers, on the eve of the 2014 World Cup, Brazilian protestors fulsomely, and often violently, argued that the ...

Entrance exam test prep, which can cost $500-$1000 a month, is largely limited to the elite class in Brazil, and only available in major cities, by comparison Descomplica charges about $3 a month ...

Antonio Ramos da Silva grew up poor and illiterate in this dusty farming village in northeast Brazil. But when he took office as Quixaba’s mayor in 1993, even he was shocked at the state of the ...

As in the United States, Brazil’s higher-education inequity is rooted in its primary and secondary schools, which vary widely in quality but are generally considered to poorly serve the country ...

A Brazilian state court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of Regiane Cichelero, a Christian mother prosecuted ...

The Brazilian government has failed to address the huge impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on education, leaving millions of children with little or no access to school, Human Rights Watch and ...

VITORIA, BRAZIL — Fabiana Nunes Rodrigues didn’t know much about trains. But she wanted a good job, she said, something stable, maybe as a mechanic, like her grandfather. Brazilian college ...

In one corner at this Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology, four teenagers are learning how to use lathes. Next door, a group of young adults is crowded around a desk testing ...

The 77-page report, “‘I Became Scared, This Was Their Goal’: Efforts to Ban Gender and Sexuality Education in Brazil,” analyzes 217 bills and laws presented between 2014 and 2022 designed ...

Tremblay also visited schools to witness the Brazilian education system firsthand. "I attended public schools, private schools, vocational schools and colleges, ...