In 2001, 40% of Sobral’s eight-year-olds could not read at all. But 14 years later, its primary-school children scored the highest grades in the country for maths and literacy
These days Mr Gomes is the boss of a local teacher-training college, and his city gets visitors from across Brazil. In 2015 Sobral’s primary-school children made headlines by scoring highest in the country in tests of maths and literacy, a milestone in a journey begun almost 20 years before. The pandemic has thrust the city back into the spotlight as a model for educators seeking to reboot schooling after lengthy closures.
The success in Sobral has roots in reforms begun in the late 1990s. In much of Brazil, city governments appoint their friends or political allies to serve as school principals. Officials in Sobral insisted that these jobs go only to candidates who could win them on merit after competing in interviews and tests.
Not much of what Sobral has done would surprise reformers in richer countries, says Claudia Costin, an academic who used to run Rio de Janeiro’s school system. But that is not the point. “The beauty of Sobral”, says Ms Cruz of All for Education, “is that they do the obvious things very well.” The city has a dogged willingness to implement “what the evidence says works”.
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