From Knowledge Economy to Human Progress- presentation by Luanne Zurlo, President and Founder of World Fund featured at the 2nd International Conference: Brazil: A pathway into the future from the Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Better Brazil

1. 2012 Brazil Conference
Johnson Cornell University Emerging Markets Institute
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2. Years of Schooling for Adults
Source: Barro and Lee, Educational Attainment Dataset

3. Educational Attainment of Adults
(1960) (2000) (2010)
% % %
No Schooling+Primary Secondary Tertiary
Source: Barro and Lee, Educational Attainment Dataset

4. Annual expenditure per student, 2008
US$ (‘000’s)
Source: OEDC Data Indicators, 2008

5. Brazil and Latin America lag behind the rest of the world in
education quality, even relative to GDP per capita

6. 50% of Brazilian 15-year-olds scored at the
lowest level, meaning they are functionally
illiterate in today’s information-age economy.
OECD PISA,
2009

7. 70% of Brazil’s high school students are not
minimally competent in math. Over half cannot
give any scientific explanation for familiar
phenomenon.
math science
OECD PISA, 2009

8.  Only a small fraction of Brazilian students performed at the highest level in
the PISA test for reading and for science and math.
 0% of students in Brazil performed at the highest level in science. (Pisa
2009 Results, page 225)
reading math science
OECD PISA, 2009

9. Test Scores and GDP Growth
Countries with students that had high test scores in 1960 experienced
greater GDP growth over the subsequent 40 years
Source: Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessman, Journal of Economic Literature, 2008

10. Teachers make the difference
100th percentile
90th percentile
If two students with
equal ability are
High-performing assigned to two
Two students teacher teachers,
with equal students with
ability
better teachers
can get 1 to 1.5
50th percentile
grade levels
ahead per year.
Low-performing 37th percentile
teacher
0 percentile 8 years old 11 years old
Source: Sanders & Rivers, Cumulative and Residual Effects on Future Student Academic Achievement, 1996. Study
conducted in Tennessee, USA.

11. Teacher Impact on Students’ Lives
“Replacing a teacher whose value-added is in the bottom 5% with an average
teacher would increase students’ lifetime income by more than US$250K for the
average classroom in our sample.”
Effects of Teacher Value-Added Effects of Teacher Value-Added
on College Attendance on Earnings at Age 28
Source: Chetty, Ray. et all. “The Long Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Studennt Outcomes in Adulthood.”
National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011.

12. Percentage of Jobs Needing a College Degree
28% 37% 42% 45%
*PROJECTED
Source: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, June 2010