http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/world/americas/05brazil.html?_r=1&ref=brazil
Over the past decade Brazil's students have scored among the lowest of any country on basic skills exams. This could have to do with their president, Mr. Da Silva, who only went to school until the fourth grade. He got a slow start by not strating the government education program until four years after he was in office. Although Silva got a slow start he has high hopes to help make the students educational experience better since he didn't have the chance to have that as a child. Improvements are being made, a program was created to give out 700,000 scholarships to low-income families so their children can attend private colleges. There has also been a new test created to evaluate student's performances.
I think this is unfortunate that Brazil's president didn't realize their struggling education system as soon as he took office. They were already so far behind and his efforts to get there education programs caught up is very difficult since they did fall so far behind everyone else. The also noted in the article that their growing economy is lacking the education so it's hard to fulfill the jobs since the studen'ts don't have proper education to work in some of the positions. They seem to have dug themselves into a big whole that's going to be very hard to get out of, but it's good to hear that things are being done to try and improve the education. You have to start somewhere and small improvements are being seen.
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