The Means of Our Salvation: Public Education in Brazil, 1930-1995

by David N. Plank

Brazil lags behind all but the poorest countries in Latin America on most indices of educational development. There is near consensus on the nature and severity of the problems facing basic education and considerable agreement on what must be done to resolve them. Nonetheless, the problems persist; agreement has not produced the actions needed to bring about improvement.David Plank argues that the backwardness of Brazilian public education can be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813389828
• ISBN13: 9780813389820
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"