National Assessment of Literacy (Avaliação Nacional da Alfabetização)
National Common Curricular Base (Base Nacional Comum Curricular)
acronym for the four Chinese provinces that participated in PISA 2018: Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang
Foundation for the Co-ordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior)
State Education Council (Conselho Estadual de Educação)
Internal Commissions for the Prevention of Accidents and School Violence (Comissões Internas de Prevenção de Acidentes e Violência Escolar)
Municipal Education Council (Conselho Municipal de Educação)
National Council of Education (Conselho Nacional de Educação)
National Education Conference (Conferência Nacional de Educação)
National Council of Education Secretariats (Conselho Nacional de Secretários de Educação)
Preliminary Course Score (Conceito Preliminar de Curso)
continuous professional development
National Curriculum Guidelines (Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais)
early childhood education and care
adult learning programmes (Educação de Jovens e Adultos)
Full-Time Upper Secondary (Ensino Médio em Tempo Integral)
National Examination of Student Performance (Exame Nacional de Desempenho dos Estudantes)
National Examination for Certification of Youth and Adult Skills (Exame Nacional para Certificação de Competências de Jovens e Adultos
National Upper Secondary Exam (Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio)
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Index of Economic, Social and Cultural Status
State Fund to Combat and Eradicate Poverty (Fundo Estadual de Combate e Erradicação à Pobreza)
National Federation of Private Schools (Federação Nacional das Escolas Particulares)
Student Financing Fund (Fundo de Financiamento Estudantil)
National Education Development Fund (Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação)
National Education Forum (Fórum Nacional de Educação)
Basic Education Maintenance and Development Fund (Fundo de Manutenção e Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica)
Primary and Lower Secondary Education Maintenance, Development and Teacher Promotion Fund (Fundo de Manutenção e Desenvolvimento do Ensino Fundamental e de Valorização do Magistério)
Gross Domestic Product
Global School-Based Student Health
Human Development Index
National Institution of Statistics in Brazil (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística)
information and communications technology
indicator of assumed learning gain (Indicador de Diferença entre os Desempenhos Observado e Esperado)
national education quality index (Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica)
International Monetary Fund
National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira)
tax on private urban real state (Imposto Predial e Territorial Urbano)
International Standard Classification of Education
International Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status
income from the tax over services (Imposto Sobre Serviços de Qualquer Natureza)
Initial Teacher Education
Initial Teacher Preparation
Latin American countries
Law on National Education Guidelines and Framework (Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional)
Latin-American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education (Laboratorio Latinoamericano de Evaluación de la Calidad de la Educación)
Maintenance and Development of Education (Manutenção e Desenvolvimento do ensino)
Ministry of Education (Ministério da Educação)
neither in employment nor in education or training ("jovens nem-nem")
National Programme for Teacher Training in Basic Education (Programa Nacional de Formação de Professores da Educação Básica)
Direct Money to School Programme (Programa Dinheiro Direto na Escola)
Physical education lessons
State-level Education Plan (Plano estadual de Educação)
National Student Health Survey (Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar)
First Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (Primer Estudio Regional Comparativo y Explicativo)
Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (OECD Survey of Adult Skills)
Institutional Teaching Initiation Scholarship Programme (Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência)
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study
OECD Programme for International Student Assessment
Declaration on Propriety, Integrity and Transparency in the Conduct of International Business and Finance
National Literacy Policy (Política Nacional de Alfabetização)
National Household Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios)
National Education Plan (Plano Nacional de Educação)
National Programme of Educational Material and Books (Programa Nacional do Livro e do Material Didático)
purchasing power parity
Support Programme for the Implementation of the new curricular standards (Programa de Apoio à Implementação da Base Nacional Comum Curricular)
Support Programme for the new Upper Secondary Education (Programa de Apoio ao Novo Ensino Médio)
“University for All” Programme (Programa Universidade para Todos)
Health in Schools Programme (Programa Saúde nas Escolas)
Basic Education Assessment System (Sistema de Avaliação da Educação Básica)
Sustainable Development Goals
State Education Secretariat
Second Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (Segundo Estudio Regional Comparativo y Explicativo)
Information System on Public Funds for Education (Sistema de Informações sobre Orçamentos Públicos em Educação)
Unified Selection System (Sistema de Seleção Unificada)
Municipal Education Secretariat (Secretaria Municipal de Educação)
National Education System (Sistema Nacional de Educação)
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey
Third Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (Tercer Estudio Regional Comparativo y Explicativo)
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
UNESCO's Institute of Statistics
National Union of Municipal Education Managers (Education União Nacional dos Dirigentes Municipais de Educação)
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
upper secondary education
vocational education and training
World Health Organization