Lessons from Ceará to deliver a more inclusive, equitable education

Ceará, a state in Northeast Brazil, has become top-performing in education in the country thanks to different commitments and reforms to improve literacy among students and staff training. This combination of efforts can lead to improvement even in less favourable socioeconomic conditions, Yifei Yan (University of Southampton), Hironobu Sano and Lilia Sumiya (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) found.