13 de July de 2026
How to transform evidence into possible paths for the implementation of public policies and Education projects? This is the reflection that guides Labedu’s new article published in Nexo Políticas Públicas, authored by associate researcher Paula Cruz and directors Beatriz Cardoso and Nicole Paulet. The text draws on research regarding the implementation of the Aprender Linguagem project—conducted in partnership with the Harvard office in Brazil—to discuss the challenges of promoting systemic transformations in Education.
“It is necessary to have the courage to develop tools not only to evaluate final results, but to monitor processes and intermediate results. In most educational programs, the quality of what reaches schools depends on how the system’s actors appropriate the inputs provided. Therefore, monitoring implementation processes is important even—or especially—when what is discovered is that the course needs to be adjusted,” the authors state in the article.
Ensuring that educational programs have evidence-based formulations is fundamental, but not sufficient. It is necessary to seek answers to questions that have the potential to change the implementation game: which elements of a program make it work? For which and how many participants? In which contexts?
The investigation was presented at the VII CONBAlf and contributes to advancing the understanding of changes in the practices of teachers and trainers. The article expands this contribution by engaging with other organizations, researchers, and decision-makers, pointing out implementation bottlenecks.
Read the article in Nexo Políticas Públicas here.