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Educational Gaps Limit Brazil’s Reach - NYTimes.com

Education is a major stumbling block in Brazil’s bid to accelerate its economy and establish itself as one of the world’s most powerful nations.

…The government has had some notable successes, including a program that has created about 700,000 scholarships for low-income students to attend private colleges, an effort lauded by education specialists.
Under Mr. da Silva, the government also opened more than 180 vocational schools compared with 140 added during the previous 93 years and has administered a new test to evaluate student performance.
School enrollment has continued to climb, a trend that began in the 1990s under the previous president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and middle school graduation rates have risen under Mr. da Silva by 13 percentage points to 47 percent, Mr. Haddad said.
But those successes fall short of the urgent thrust for change that some education specialists were hoping to see from Mr. da Silva, considering his background. Not nearly enough was done to improve the quality of education and teaching methods, and the president has not used his bully pulpit to inspire the nation to demand more from its teachers and schools,…

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For-Profit Schools Leave Students With Debt They Can’t Repay

The Department of Education released loan repayment numbers for 8,000 American colleges and universities which showed that for-profit school graduates face massive amounts of debt that far outstrip the debt of their nonprofit and public school peers. Higher numbers of students who go to for-profit schools end up being unable to repay their loans.

…for some reason, a single woman with very low pay does not qualify for grants– but I knew single moms and married women with one kid who qualified for grants). Maybe a class-action lawsuit will bring some relief. My school was definitely overpriced but it isn’t the school’s fault I can’t find work– there were massive layoffs this past year. I obviously chose the wrong field and should have gone into nursing. In the meantime, yet again this year I won’t be able to make payments on my loan and the interest will keep piling up.

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GwNorth August 20th, 2010 2:23 pm
Just like in virtually every Industry in this “For profit world” debt has become ubiquitous.
I mentioned weeks ago how a major retailer had a bulletin in their backroom office wherein they encouraged their employees to get customers to use their store CREDIT cards because the chain made 95 percent of all its profits off interest payments on debt.
5 percent came from selling product.
These…

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