Tag: students
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Two masked teenagers fired shots inside a school in Suzano, Sao Paulo, early Wednesday morning, killing five students and two school employees before turning the guns on themselves and...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Education Minister of Brazil, Ricardo Velez Rodriguez, received a wave of criticism after sending an e-mail to schools across the country Monday night asking educators to videotape students singing...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – More than eight million candidates signed up for Brazil’s National Secondary Education Examination (Enem) over the weekend but records show that only 5.8 million actually took the tests. This year’s...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Ministry of Education in Brazil has announced that it is postponing the National Secondary Education Examination (ENEM), scheduled for this Saturday, in 304 locations due to occupations of schools...
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The same as the government did for the Olympics, thousands of students from Rio state schools will have the opportunity to watch the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, which will be...
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Organizers say that over 10,000 protesters came together yesterday, March 2nd, to demonstrate against the financial plan proposed by Governor Luiz Fernando, nicknamed "Pezão" (Bigfoot). The budget-cutting measures in...
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Students from The British School, Rio de Janeiro have recently completed a course in the month of November aimed at engaging in social development causes in Brazil. The class...
By Michela DellaMonica, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL — With its three impressive campuses in Macaé, Gávea and Barra da Tijuca, a new qualified and motivated headmaster, the American School, or Escola Americana do Rio de Janeiro (EARJ), is...
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – After the recesso branco, where parliament continued functioning but no votes were held, lawmakers now have a long list of crucial votes ahead of them on bills prioritized in the wave...
