evaluates the evolution of schooling for each sex, using cohorts for the available censuses. It also analyses data on the school … population from the different censuses and from Elementary and High School Evaluation System (Saeb). Saeb data concerns … exclusively on elementary school 4th and 8th graders and high school 3rd graders. The main conclusion is that women have been …

This paper analyses the most important experiences with school accountability policy (SA) in Brazil. The analysis … incorporate a system in which the school is responsible for the students’ performance; (ii) or the incentive schemes are not … appropriately designed. Finally, it discusses the main barriers to the adoption of an efficient SA at the national level in Brazil …