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The Brazilian Government announced the Base Nacional Curricular (Common Core) program during the first week of April. The national newspaper Folha de São Paulo published a series of special reports about the Base Nacional including an interview with Lemann Center Director Professor Paulo Blikstein in which he presented his perspective on the final document after his technical analysis.

The interview was given to Visiting Scholar Sabine Righetti, it is available  in Portuguese in this  link - Folha de São Paulo, via UOL.

" Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday night hardly mentioned education, but the little there was, was all about educational choice. The choice message was directed right at African Americans and Hispanics. “I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African-American and Latino children,” he said.

To dispel any doubt whether he was talking about the use of public money to attend private schools, the President pointed to a young black woman in the gallery, Denisha Merriweather. She had “struggled in (public) school and failed third grade twice,” he said. “But then she was able to enroll in a private center for learning, with the help of a tax credit scholarship program,” and went on to complete college." 

The issue of BAR - Brazilian Administration Review, the international periodical of ANPAD (the Brazilian Academy of Management), v.13, n.3, July/September 2016, presents an interview with Stanford Emeritus Professor, W. Richard
 (Dick) Scott, who were interviewed by a former Lemann Center visiting student researcher, Juliana Marangoni Amarante.
 
Scott is currently Professor Emeritus of Sociology, with courtesy appointments in the Schools of Business, Education, Engineering and Medicine. He has spent his whole entire career at Stanford University. He is a leading contributor to
 organization and institutional theory and his empirical research has focused on professional organizations: schools, colleges, mental health systems, health care systems, nonprofit organizations and engineering teams.
 
Juliana is a PhD candidate in Business Administration at UEM - Universidade Estadual de Maringá, where she is advised by João Marcelo Crubellate. Last semester, she spent three months at the Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship
 and Innovation in Brazil, doing part of her PhD dissertation, in which the institutional perspective is applied to comprehend universities' entrepreneurial turn. Given the proximity of her research to the studies conducted by Scott, Juliana's advisor while
 she was at Stanford, Professor Eric Bettinger, put her in contact with Scott and then, on May 2 2016, Scott kindly received Juliana in his Stanford Office to talk about Institutional Theory's past and future contributions to Organization Studies.

Reportagem do jornal EXTRA, publicada em 13 de Junho de 2016, cita estudo do economista, Vitor Pereira que é Fellow do Lemann Center da Universidade de Stanford.

O texto de Bruno Alfano e Nelson Lima Neto, afirma: “A economia gerada pela suspensão do Renda Melhor Jovem, que pagava um prêmio por desempenho a estudantes de pequeno poder aquisitivo, para que concluíssem o ensino médio, se perderá por causa das repetências que o programa deixará de evitar. Essa é a avaliação do economista Vitor Pereira, doutorando da PUC-Rio e autor do estudo “Pagando estudantes para se formarem no ensino médio: evidências do programa Renda Melhor Jovem”.”