EFA 2000
Education for All: Evaluation of the Year 2000
National Report – Brazil
National Evaluation Coordinator:
Maria Helena Castro, President of the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research (INEP)
National Education for All Evaluation Committee
Coordinator:Maria Helena Guimarães de Castro
National Institute for Educational Studies and Research - INEP
Secretary:Regina Luna Santos Cardoso - INEP
Assistant:Paulino Motter - INEP
Members:
Iara Glória Areias Prado  / Marilene Ribeiro dos Santos / Pedro Paulo Poppovic
Rui Leite Berger Filho / Abílio Baeta Neves Ulysses Cidade Semeghini  / Antonio Emílio Sendim Marques
Sônia Maria Ribeiro Moreira / Mônica Messenberg Guimarães Jabour Costa
Ministry of Education: Ramiro Wahrhaftig   / Efrem de Aguiar Maranhão / Marília Miranda Lindinger
National Council of Education Secretaries: Neroaldo Pontes de Azevedo
National Association of Municipal Education Officials

Maria Dulce Borges  / UNESCO Office in Brazil

Garren Lumpkin  / Manuel Rojas Buvinich UNICEF Office in Brazil

Patrício Millán  World Bank / Luíza Carvalho United Nations Development Program - UNDP

Maria Alice Setubal Center for Studies and Research on Education, Culture and Community Action - CENPEC

General Coordination: Maria Helena Guimarães de Castro ,National Institute for Educational Studies and Research - INEP
Technical Supervision: Paulino Motter / Margareth Watanabe , Production and review of statistics and indicators:
João Batista Ferreira Gomes Neto / Carlos Eduardo Moreno Sampaio / Ivan Castro de Almeida / João Vicente Pereira
José Irineu Rangel Rigoti / Liliane Lúcia de Aranha Oliveira Brant  / Luciano Neves Kalatalo /Marcos Ruben de Oliveira
Roxana Maria Rossy Campos / Vanessa Néspoli de Oliveira / National Institute for Educational Studies and Research - INEP
Analysis of SAEB results: Maria Inês Pestana / Lúcia Maria Modesto Pereira / Franco César Bernardes, National Institute for Educational Studies and Research - INEP
Revision of the text on Special Education: Ivana de Siqueira / Reinaldo Estelles / Marlene de Oliveira Gotti / Luzimar Camões Peixoto
Research and Advisory: Maria Alice Setúbal / Center for Studies and Research on Education, Culture and Community Action - CENPEC
Analysis and Drafting:  Eunice Ribeiro Durham / Higher Education Research Center (NUPES/University of São Paulo)
Final Text: Ana Maria Pacheco Lopes de Almeida / Idéias Consultores Associados
Revisers: José Adelmo Guimarães / Marluce Moreira Salgado /Bibligraphic standardization / Regina Helena Azevedo de Mello
Translation: Luiz Marcos B. L. de Vasconcelos / Master Language Traduções e Interpretação Ltda., International Cataloguing Data in the Publication (CIP)
National Institute for Educational Studies and Research

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

PART I Descriptive Section

Education for All priorities, action plan and decision-making system

EFA Strategy

Partnerships with Society and International Cooperation

Investments in Education for All projects since 1990

PART II Analytic Section

1. Introduction: General Scenario

1.1 - Illiteracy

1.2 - Evolution in the Average Schooling

1.3 - The Expansion of the Educational System as a Whole

2.1 - Day-Care Centers

2.2 – Pre-School Education

        Pre-School Education: cont. 1

        Pre-School Education: cont. 2

2.3 – Reading and Writing Classes

3. Primary Education

3.1 – Principal Indicators

3.2 – Training and Remunerating Teachers

        Training and Remunerating Teachers: cont.

3.3 – Expenditure on Primary Education

4. Youth and Adult Education

4.1 – EJA Policies in the 1990s

5. Special Education

6. Secondary Education

6.1 – Educational Mobility

7. National System for Evaluation of Basic Education – SAEB

7.1 – Evaluation of the Proficiency of Basic-Education Students

           Evaluation of the Proficiency of Basic-Education Students: cont.

8. Summary of Core EFA Indicators

8.1 – Early Childhood Development Programs

8.2 - Primary Education

1. EFA: Effectiveness of the Strategy, Plan and Programs

1.1 – Fundef

1.2 – Programs

2. Principal Problems Encountered and Anticipated

3. Public Awareness, Political Institutions and National Capacities

4. General Perception of Progress