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22/08/2012
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Brasília - After meeting with the state secretaries of Education, Minister Mercadante announced that it will be entered into a "national pact" with state governments to improve the quality of secondary education. The move comes a week after the dissemination of the results of the Index of Basic Education Development (IDEB) which, in high school, showed unsatisfactory results. The school is considered the "bottleneck" of basic education, to register high rates of abandonment and rejection, and learning problems.
According to Mercadante, will be formed a working group between the Secretaries of Education and Ministry of Education officials to discuss solutions for this stage of education. One focus will be the reform of the high school curriculum. The criticism is that today knowledge is presented in a very fragmented students - on average there are 13 compulsory subjects. The debate is not new. Last year, the National Education Council (CNE) approved new high school curriculum guidelines that have indicated an easing of that format. According to the minister, the document will be the basis for the new model.
Mercadante said that the reform does not mean that the division between the disciplines will be abolished, but that the learning content will be integrated into four main areas: languages, mathematics, humanities and nature. "Some school systems are already working in the area of concentration. That does not mean fewer subjects or fewer teachers, but they are integrated into a single learning process, "he said.
One of the tasks of the working group will raise the good experiences developed in the states so they can be used by other school systems. For the president of the National Council of Education Secretaries (Consed), Nilene Badeca, it is critical that states participate in this curriculum redesign because they are running in tip policies.
"The idea is not to have a single model. We will seek what is best for each situation. We will exchange experiences to see what is best for the states. We will propose and see what we can do together with MEC, "he said.
Besides the curriculum reform, the MEC discussed with the secretaries other actions to improve the school, such as increasing the school day and the number of teachers dedicated exclusively to a single school. According to the minister, another idea is to create an exchange program between school principals so they know "the best high school experiences in Brazil in order to bring to your network."
He will also discuss the possibility of expanding the Innovative School Program, which currently serves 2,000 schools. Through him, the MEC supports teaching units that want to develop new forms of organization of secondary education, including increasing the number of hours that students spend in school.
Source: Agency Brazil
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