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"Street Matters links urban policy and planning with street protests in Brazil. It begins with the 2013 demonstrations that ostensibly began over public transportation fare increases but quickly grew to address larger questions of inequality. This inequality is physically manifested across Brazil, most visibly in its sprawling urban favelas. The authors propose an understanding of the social and spatial dynamics at play that is based on property, labor, and security. They stitch together the history of plans for urban space with the popular protests that Brazilians organized to fight for property and land. They embed the history of civil society within the history of urban planning and its institutionalization to show how urban and regional planning played a key role in the management of the social conflicts surrounding land ownership. If urban and regional planning at times benefited the expansion of civil rights, it also often worked on behalf of class exploitation, deepening spatial inequalities and conflicts embedded in different city spaces"--

'Brazil: Five Centuries of Change' by Thomas E. Skidmore and 'A Concise History of Brazil' by Boris Fausto are reviewed. Brazil: Five Centuries of Change by Thomas E. Skidmore and A Concise History of Brazil by Boris Fausto are reviewed.

This handbook examines policy questions on education in the USA. It reflects the premise that each member of society must take an active role in ensuring in children the cultivation of skills and responsibilities necessary for a free and virtuous social order

This article aims to present, from a historical perspective, the main legal instruments on access to land, based on authors who have studied the agrarian issue in Brazil, namely: João Pedro Stédile (2011), José de Souza Martins (1980), Marcia Maria Mendes Motta (1998), Maria Ligia Osório Silva (1996, 1997), Ruy Cirne Lima (1954), among others. It also aims to demonstrate how legislation has advanced in the process of recognizing the socio-environmental function of property while it brought ambiguities that have led to regression in terms of a fairer and more equitable distribution of land, essential to human needs, such as housing and food. The materials used to prepare the article came from primary and secondary sources collected through bibliographic and documentary research.KEYWORDS: property of land, socio-environmental function of property, Brazilian legislation.

An exploration of the main features of Brazil's history that have resulted in excessive concentration of property & political power, extensive underemployment of labor & natural resources, & persistent attachment to external motivations. The "owners of power" owe their pervasive influence to independence (1822), & during a unique empire that lasted for almost seventy years, they succeeded in retrieving from colonial times an internalization of the archaic metropolitan political & economic centralization. Now, however, there is a widespread feeling that the socioeconomic modernization of Brazil can no longer be neglected. A review of recent studies that, despite the difficulties presently faced, the possibilities for improving the situation are encouraging. The role of the state remains a much discussed subject. 31 References. Modified AA

In this book an eminent scholar and policymaker analyzes the lessons history can teach those who wish to reform the American educational system.Maris Vinovskis begins by tracing the evolving role of the federal government in educational research, providing a historical perspective at a time when there is some movement to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. He then focuses on early childhood education, exploring trends in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He examines the troubling history of the Follow Through Program, which existed from 1967 to 1994 to help Head Start children make the transition into the regular schools, and he reviews the development of the Even Start Program, which works to improve the literacy of disadvantaged parents while providing early childhood education for their children. He discusses changing views toward the economic benefits of education and critically assesses the validity and usefulness of the idea of systemic or standards-based reform. Finally he develops a conceptual framework for mapping and analyzing education research and reform activities