Public Education in Brazil: Where is it headed? Can technological innovation, entrepreneurs, and policy research help it improve?
Panel 1 - Education and Economic Development in Brazil
Nick Hope (Moderator, Stanford)
Werner Baer (Illinois) - Institutional Obstacles to Brazil’s Economic Development
Hank Levin (Columbia) - Educational Adaptability
Paulo Meyer (Discussant, IPEA) - Comments on panel 1 presentations
Richard Murnane (Harvard) - Educational Investments to Support Widely Shared Economic Growth: The Challenge and the Opportunity
Panel 2 - Is Education Improving, and If So, Why or Why Not? Comparing Brazil to Other Latin American Countries and to California
Martin Carnoy (Moderator & participant, Stanford) - Improving Education in Brazil: Evidence for Policies That Work
Ruben Klein (Fundação Cesgranrio) - Education in Brazil
Aguinaldo N. Maciente (IPEA) - Is education improving in Brazil?
Thomas Dee (Stanford) - Is Education Improving, and if So, Why or Why Not?
Panel 3 - Education and Inequality in Brazil: Race and Education, Social Class and Education
Rachel Lotan (Moderator, Stanford)
Ricardo Madeira (USP) - Racial Inequality in Brazilian Education:Recent trends on education quantity and quality and evidence on racial stigma
Daniel Ximenes (UC-Davis) - Bolsa Familia Program and educational challenges: inequalities and public policies
Mary Arends (Illinois) - Quotas in Brazilian Public Universities
Presentation
Mauricio Holanda Maia (Education Secretary, Ceará, Brazil) - Mauricio_Apresentação US + Articular la política educativa a partir de los resultados de calidad
Introduction: David Plank (Stanford)
Panel 4 - The Key Role of Teachers and Management in Educational Improvement: What do We Know about Teachers’ Role in Student Achievement?
Eric Bettinger (Moderator, Stanford)
Susanna Loeb (Stanford) - What Do We Know about Teachers’ Role inStudent Achievement?
Linda Darling Hammond (Stanford) - What Do We Know about Teachers’ Role inStudent Achievement?
Paula Louzano (USP) - Inequality in K-12 Brazilian Education + Public Education in Brazil: Are we developing good teaching?
Maria Helena Guimaraes (Fundação SEADE) - The Key Role of Teachers and Management in Educational Improvement
Panel 5 - Democracy and Accountability
David Plank (Moderator & participant, Stanford) -
Mike Kirst (CA Government) - State Policy to Implement Common Core Standards: Almost Everything Changes
Fran Hagopian (Harvard) - Education and Democracy in Brazil: A Broken Link of Accountability?
Jerry Davila (Illinois) - Brazilian Quotas and Affirmative Action In Historical Perspective
Fernando Almeida (PUC-SP) - Democracy and Accountability
Poster Session Lemann Fellows
Tassia Cruz (Stanford) - The Teachers Labor Market in Brazil
Nina Cunha (Stanford) - Parents: substitutes or complements to the school environment?
Izabel Fonseca (Stanford) - Achievement Gaps by Race and Parental Education in Brazilian Schools: 1995-2011
Luana Marotta (Stanford) - Social background inequalities in school dropout
Fernando Carnaúba (USP) - May Affirmative Action Increase Academic Achievement in Brazil?
Presentation
Cristovam Buarque (Brazil Senate) - Public Education in BrazilWhere is it headed and can technological innovation, entrepreneurship and policy research help it improve?
Introduction: Martin Carnoy
Panel 6 - Innovating for Improving Science Teaching
Paulo Blikstein (Moderator & participant, Stanford)
Bryan Brown (Stanford) - Language, Identity, & Academic Language Learning
Roseli Lopes (USP) - Innovating for Improving Science Teaching
Chris Dede (Harvard) - Augmented Realities:Richly Contextualized Learning throughout Life
Panel 7 - Technology and innovative interventions in K-12 education: beyond the hype, what actually works?
Eric Bettinger (Moderator & participant, Stanford) - Lessons on Technology in the Classroom
Jeremy Roschelle (SRI) - Research, Evidence and Digital Learning
Jose Valente (Unicamp) - Innovation in K-12 Education: what really worked
Fernanda Rosa (Columbia) - Challenges for implementing effective mobile education programs in Brazil
Panel 8 - Education and Entrepreneurship: do they make a marriage?
Denis Mizne (Moderator & participant, Lemann Foundation)
Tony Wan (EdSurge) - You say you want a revolution
Guilherme Cintra (GERA) - Be Pedagogical About Your Changes
Claudio Sassaki (Geekie) - Education and Entrepreneurship: Do they make a marriage?
Lunch Talk
Ted Mitchell (US Dept. of Education)
Introduction: David Plank (Stanford)
Panel 9 - Improving teacher training through technology and Best Practices
Rachel Lotan (Moderator & participant, Stanford) - STEP and iSTEP
Ulysses Araujo (USP) - Improving k-12 teacher’s practice in Brazil with project-based learning and virtual tools
Jo Boaler (Stanford) - Erasing Mathematics Failure Through the Learning Revolution
Panel 10 - Summing Up
Paulo Blikstein (Moderator)
Mike Kirst (CA Government)
Cristovam Buarque (Brazilian Senate)
Maria Helena Guimaraes (Fundação SEADE)
Sergei Soares (IPEA)
Mauricio Holando Maia (Education Secretary, Ceará, Brazil)
Ted Mitchell (US Dept. of Education)
