Sud Menucci was a Brazil

Brazil

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ian journalist

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 and educator, who was a strong proponent of quality in public education

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 in his country. The municipality of Sud Mennucci, São Paulo

Sud Mennucci, São Paulo

Sud Mennucci is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Altitude is 386 m and in 2004 it had an estimated population of 7,447 inhabitants. Total area is 592.344 km²....

 has been named in his honor.

Mennucci was born in Piracicaba, state of São Paulo

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. In 1910 he started his career as a teacher

Teacher

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 in a rural school. In 1913 he moved to Belém

Belém

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, in the state of Pará

Pará

Pará is a state in the north of Brazil. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest it also borders Guyana and Suriname, and to the northeast it borders the Atlantic Ocean. The capital is Belém.Pará is the most populous state...

, invited to reorganize the Escolas de Aprendizes de Marinheiros de Belém do Pará until 1914. Back to São Paulo, he continued to work as a teacher in the cities of Porto Ferreira

Porto Ferreira

Porto Ferreira is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 was 52,026 and the area is 244.88 km².It is situated to the edge of the river Mogi-Guaçu, at an altitude of 549 meters. Its population in 2006 was 54 000 inhabitants...

 and São Paulo City.

In 1920, he was the coordinator of the school census

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 of the state, which led the reorganization of the state secretary of education into 15 regional offices. Briefly after that, he was appointed as the director of the regional office of Campinas

Campinas

Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....

.

Mennucci's career as a journalist started in 1925. Until 1931, he worked as an editor and literary critic at the O Estado de São Paulo newspaper

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. In that year, he was promoted to the general directorship of the state secretary of education of the state of São Paulo. He was also very active, beginning 1930, in the creation of the Centro do Professorado Paulista, one of the main teacher's associations in the state. He was its president between 1931 and 1948.

He was the author of A Crise Brasileira da Educação (The Brazilian Educational Crisis), which received an award by the Academia Brasileira de Educação (Brazilian Academy of Education).

External links

• Biography of Sud Mennucci (In Portuguese)