A short abstract I submitted in a journal Low tests scores and low graduation rates are examples educational challenges in Brazil, especially if we refer to secondary students. Public policies have been created to improve these indices and the ``Jovem de Futuro'' program is one example. We analyzed details of this program to understand if and how it works. ``Jovem de Futuro'' has been a program focused on support for public secondary schools. It provides training to improve school management (principals and teachers) and funding for schools. In addition, a randomized controlled trial was designed for selection of treated schools, which ensured our ability to perform a causality analysis. Our results indicate that the program improves student performance in language (Portuguese) and mathematics tests. The scores of treated students increased about $0.2\sigma$. Furthermore, we did not find any difference in the performance of students when grouped them, for example, by sex or race. Our analysis also indicate that students perform better if they are from schools with better previous results. Because repetition and dropout rates are a real problem in schools of secondary level in Brazil, we estimated effectiveness of the program to these rates. Our results indicate repetition and dropout probabilities fell if students are from schools that received goals to improve these rates. On the other hand, if schools did not receive any goal, dropout and repetition probability from students in treated schools raised. Finally, because of these mix effects - better test performance and worst repetition and dropout rates - we calculated and estimated the impact in the Index of Development of Basic Education (IDEB). This index put together: performance in tests and rates of students approved. Our results show that the impact in this index was lower than in the student tests performance in schools from areas with lower approbation rates.

Explaning a table [a short outline: I want to develop my academic writing skills because I will be at an American University in Autumn. I will try to discuss some points from my paper in portuguese in english. I will try to do this without a dictionary.] We present schools characteristics in table 1. There is no difference to the most of index analyzed. In the first part of the table, we present some averages from schools and in the second part we present index from the neighborhoods where schools are installed. Schools are big in all regions and status. All of them have more than one thousand students. Three areas (Sao Paulo, Vale do Paraíba and Porto Alegre) have about half of students in the secondary level and the other half in the elementary. The other two regions (Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte) concentrate enrollment in secondary level. We also can see that many students are enrolled in the night shift. This fact also indicates that schools attend poor socioeconomic background students. We analyze the class size is as well. On average there are more than 35 students by class. Finally, we present some index that are very problematic in Brazilian secondary school: reprobation and dropout rates. They are usually bigger on average. The range of reprobation rates varies between 17\% and 25\%. Dropout rates are between 3.6\% and 21\%. Clearly, these indexes are a serious problem to treated and control schools. It is difficult to imagine a good school that just provide education to a small portion of pupils. The second part of the table analysis the neighborhood index of schools. We took these data from demographic census provided by Brazil. Again it indicates students have a poor socioeconomic background.

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