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By Barbara Bruns

Educational transformations require long-term commitment, passion, and political and managerial skills. In Brazil, Paulo Renato Souza is an inspiring role model for how education can become a matter of state and how to revolutionize education with powerful leadership and management. In what he called the ‘revolução gerenciada,’ he was able to implement an educational reform and be remembered as someone who left an impact that survived the test of time and the political changes of different parties elected.

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By Elena Arias, Ximena Dueñas, Cecilia Giambruno, and Angela López

“What is not measured cannot be improved. What is not improved, degrades.”

Although it sounds simple, this phrase, attributed to the renowned physicist and mathematician William Thomson Kelvin, is key to understanding why educational assessment is so important. If we don't know how much students are learning, how can we improve their learning?

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