The inter-american development Bank’s Project of Education

Abstract

This paper discusses the project of Education developed by the, some aspects of the Inter-American Development Bank, its history, its internal organization and contracts addressed to Brazil. We analyzed a huge documental corpus about the general guidelines of IADB, its milestone and projects for the sector of Education. The findings evidence that, under the pretext of poverty alleviation, the IADB’s policies aim at narrow the teacher training; strength control over teaching work through the curriculum reform, implement large scales assessment, coaching; adopt flexible management; destroy the teaching career by its replacement by meritocratic; introduce measures of accountability; adopt vouchers besides other forms of privatization of education, which affect since the material choice until the management outsourcing of the public schools.