A study carried out with high school students in Pernambuco pointed out that full-time schooling enabled significant gains in learning.
By analyzing the performance of students in official assessments, the work showed, isolating other factors, that performance in Portuguese and mathematics subjects jumped more than a year with the expansion of the workload.
In an interview with CNN Rádio, one of those responsible for the research, economist Leonardo Rosa explained that integral education is a way of trying to match Brazilian education with that of other countries.
“The study we carried out, from a comparative perspective with other countries, shows that Brazil has a low workload for high school students. The country ends up being in the lantern in relation to the workload. If we think about how other countries made an education that worked, one of the elements is that the student stays in school longer, to have more learning opportunities”, he said.
Countries with a level of development similar to Brazil, such as Chile, have already adopted a much more aggressive policy because they understand that the school plays a multidimensional role in the student’s life.
The survey also pointed out that full-time education can combat educational inequality in the country, between different states and municipalities. If installed in more vulnerable areas, the school can fulfill a role beyond learning.
“In Pernambuco, 70% of high school enrollments are in full-time schools. Any student who wants to go to a school with an extended workload has a place, that is, everyone is covered, it becomes a universal policy”, concluded the researcher.
Source: CNN Brasil
