Educação

Executive Summary

This report summarizes the findings from a national evaluation of mentoring programs funded under the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Student Mentoring Program. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requested that the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) within ED oversee an independent evaluation of the Student Mentoring Program. In 2005, ED contracted with Abt Associates and its team of subcontractors, Branch Associates, Moore and Associates, and the Center for Resource Management, to conduct the Impact Evaluation of Student Mentoring Programs. The impact evaluation used an experimental design in which students were randomly assigned to a treatment or control group. Thirty-two purposively selected School Mentoring Programs and 2,573 students took part in the evaluation, which estimated the impact of the programs over one school year on a range of student outcomes. The evaluation also describes the characteristics of the program and the mentors, and provides information about program delivery.

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Achieving universal enrollment in primary school, and high attendance among those enrolled, has been a major policy focus in developing countries for the last decade. There is now considerable evidence from randomized evaluations on the effectiveness of the different strategies that have been used to promote student participation. Parents are sensitive to the cost of school and even small subsidies can improve participation. But the most cost-effective approaches of those examined here are providing families with information about the higher wages earned by those who complete school, and addressing health problems such as intestinal worms and chronic anemia. So far there is little evidence that families vary their demand for schooling in response to education quality, such as more teacher attendance or a remedial curriculum, but this question has only been looked at over the shorter term.

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Todos sabemos que a educação brasileira tem problemas sérios de qualidade e acesso. Sabemos também que têm havido melhoras importantes desde a década de 90.A dúvida é se essas melhoras caracterizam um avanço contínuo que em poucos anos nos colocará no mesmo nível dos países mais desenvolvidos ou se estamos diante de um impasse. Se há um “teto de vidro” que temos dificuldade em enxergar, mas que nos impede de avançar com a velocidade e a qualidade que precisamos, fazendo uso adequado dos recursos disponíveis. Algumas pequenas melhoras que parecem ter surgido mais recentemente nas avaliações são restritas demais, dispersas e sujeitas a questionamentos estatísticos, e não justificam o tom de euforia eleitoral que o Ministério da Educação tem adotado a respeito delas.

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