"It can be or not be an opportunity to build, or we can deep dive into a dark age." "Can we build a new renaissance?" Cruz posed in her conclusion. More specifically, she also called for a focus on professional development for teachers and increasing technical and vocational courses to help provide the motivation and direction students who have dropped out will need to return to school. To move forward, Cruz proposed both short- and long-term solutions, including reform, sharing resources, and implementing best practices from more successful states. However, the pandemic has set back recent progress, and it looks like Brazil may be returning to levels of education from 10 years ago. Throughout most of Latin America, it is still unknown what the full future effects of these school closings will be. Most schools have not found a sustainable way to continue education. Improvements were seen in some states, but not all, and Cruz recognized the “need to universalize equality.”Ĭruz explained that while it is still undetermined what the full fallout from the pandemic will be, it is clear that only a few states in Brazil were able to institute remote learning in March 2020.
Priscila Cruz, the executive president of Todos Pela Educação, led the conversation around the challenges of basic education within Brazil and Latin America as a whole. While the pandemic may not be over, three MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) programs: MIT-Brazil, MIT-Chile, and MIT-Mexico, put together a panel of experts to discuss various solutions, explore opportunities, and learn together.
Many countries have declared educational quarantines as part of efforts to stop the pandemic, but more than a year-and-a-half later, governments are already thinking, what is next? In early 2020, Covid-19 forced countries across Latin America to take measures to keep children, young people, and adults away from schools.
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