In the week marked by the return of face-to-face classes in much of the country, a study pointed out that the number of Brazilian children aged six and seven who cannot read and write grew 66.3% from 2019 to 2021. The survey shows that 2, 4 million or 40% of children in Brazil were not literate in this age group.
At the same time, the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have led many families to withdraw their children from private schools and seek places in the public network. And a consequence of this has been the difficulties of municipal and state governments in meeting this new demand.
In this episode of E Tem Mais, Carol Nogueira presents a balance of data that reinforce the negative impacts of the pandemic on education and the challenges that Brazil needs to face to reverse this damage. To describe the shocks caused by the prolonged period of confrontation with Covid-19 and the measures necessary to change the scenario, the leader of educational policies of the NGO Todos Pela Educação, Gabriel Corrêa, and the editor-in-chief of the CNN EducationRodrigo Maia.
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