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PISA: Brazil moves closer to wealthy countries in school performance
Brazilian education continues to perform far below developed countries, but the gap has narrowed over the past two decades. The result can be found in the latest findings from the Program for...
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Over half of Brazilian undergraduates drop out to care for children
In Brazil, more than half (54.4%) of undergraduate students have had to take a leave of absence or even drop out of college to care for their children, according to a survey conducted by a working...
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Brazil adds political education to school curriculum
The Brazilian government has enacted two laws aimed at strengthening civic education. Published on Tuesday (Jul. 14), the laws make political education and citizens’ rights mandatory components of the...
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Brazil has four schools as finalists for World’s Best School Prizes
Brazil has four schools among the world’s 50 best schools: GET IV Centenary Municipal School, in Rio de Janeiro; Baniwa Kalipana School, in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas; Rosa Mutran Maluf Early...
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Study reveals 113-million-year-old pterosaur tissue preservation
A new fossilization mechanism capable of preserving soft tissues and even steroids - extremely fragile organic molecules - in a 113-million-year-old pterosaur from the Cretaceous period, the age of the...
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Education: Brazil cuts failure, dropout, and grade-level delay rates
The figures on the performance of students who completed high school in Brazil’s public schools showed improvement from 2022 to 2025. Failures plunged 62 percent, the dropout rate decreased by 61...
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Brazil’s poor students make up majority and show lowest reading skills
Students with lower socio-economic status perform more poorly in reading, and almost half of them have a learning level considered below basic. In Brazil, while 83.9 percent of fourth-graders with...
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Brazil plan targets 10% of GDP for education
One of the goals of Brazil’s National Education Plan (PNE) is to increase public investment in education to 7.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) within seven years and to 10 percent within a...
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In Brazil, four in ten teenagers face school bullying
In Brazil, four out of ten students aged 13 to 17 say they have already been victims of bullying, and 27.2 percent in this age group have suffered some form of humiliation two or more times.The data,...
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Brazil achieves 66% literacy rate among children at the right age
Brazil has surpassed its goal for children to become literate at the right age, with 66 percent of students able to read and write by the end of the second year of elementary school in 2025. The...
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One in four public school students in Brazil studies full-time
The Brazilian Ministry of Education and the Anísio Teixeira National Institute for Educational Studies and Research (INEP) released the results of the first stage of the 2025 school census on Thursday...
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Brazil records 1 million fewer enrollments in basic education
The Brazilian Ministry of Education and the Anísio Teixeira National Institute for Educational Studies and Research (INEP) released the results of the first stage of the 2025 School Census on Thursday...
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Brazilian Débora Garofalo elected world’s most influential teacher
The Varkey Foundation, an international organization dedicated to valuing teachers, recognized Brazilian educator Débora Garofalo as the world’s most influential teacher.At a ceremony on Monday (Feb....
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Internet use by Brazilian kids in schools falls from 51% to 37%
Internet use by Brazilian kids aged 9 to 17 in schools fell in 2025, as per a study entitled Tic Kids Online Brasil 2025, released this week. According to the survey, users within this age group who go...
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Brazilian teachers lose 21% of class time maintaining discipline
In Brazil, teachers lose an average of 21 percent of class time maintaining order in the classroom – in other words, for every five hours of class, one hour is lost trying to get students’ attention....
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Brazilian university terminates agreement with Israeli institute
The State University of Campinas (Unicamp) announced on Tuesday (Sep. 30) that it is unilaterally terminating its academic cooperation agreement with Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology.“The...
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Cell phone ban boosts attention in class for 80% of Brazilian students
Over 80 percent of Brazilian students say they have been paying more attention in class since the cell phone ban was introduced.Perceived positive impact is highest in the early grades of elementary...
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Affirmative action changes “face of Brazil’s universities,” study says
Brazil, a country with 112.7 million black and brown people (55.2% of the population) and over 1.6 million indigenous people, took a long time to recognize its ethno-racial diversity among university...
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Three out of 10 Brazilians are functionally illiterate
Three out of ten Brazilians aged 15–64 either cannot read or write, or know very little to the point of not being able to understand short written sentences or identify telephone numbers or prices....
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Brazil’s poor students make up majority and show lowest reading skills
Students with lower socio-economic status perform more poorly in reading, and almost half of them have a learning level considered below basic. In Brazil, while 83.9 percent of fourth-graders with...
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