The center of Novo Aripuana, a 16,000 square-mile municipality in Amazonas state.
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Maria Iris Menezes gives a dictation exercise to her second grade class at the Professor Francisco Sa state school in the center of Novo Aripuana.
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A second grader taking a fourth-grade dictation test in Ms. Menezes' class.
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A state school in the center of Novo Aripuana.
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A "rabeta", or motor-powered canoe, is the most common form of transportation between distant communities in Amazonas.
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The J.W. Marriott Jr. School has brought upper primary education to isolated river communities of Novo Aripuana for the first time. Students stay for a week at a time, sleeping on hammocks in this dorm building.
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The one-room schoolhouse in the Primavera community. Well, one-classroom schoolhouse. There is a small living space for the teacher, Glimalde De Souza Menezes, and his family as well.
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De Souza teaches five grades in one room, usually teaching two lessons at a time and rotating children in and out of the classroom.
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Silvia, age 8, sounds out the vowels.
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The teacher's son, Italo, is too young for school. But he hangs out in the classroom anyway, playing with the chick and with a toy wooden gun.
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A technician monitors the screen as Denanci Silva (in purple top) gives a grammar lesson that is sent via satellite to hundreds of classrooms across the state.
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Denanci Silva teaches a Portuguese grammar lesson that is seen live across the state. She said she is more disciplined on camera than in her regular classroom.
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Students at the Rainha dos Apostolos school in rural Manaus take in a chemistry lesson on the periodic table being taught live at the Media Center.
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