A NGO All for Education and Iede (Interdisciplinarity and evidence in the educational debate) This Monday (28), World Education Daya series of new data that allows you to draw a Panorama on learning in basic education in the country.
According to the survey, learning did not return to the levels of the period before the pandemic. And educational inequalities, already evident in 2019, deepened mainly with regard to ethnic-racial issues: Between 2013 and 2023 Learning disparities grew between comparison with white and yellow students.
The information is part of the Study “Learning in Basic Education: Brazilian Postpound Situation”. They are based on the results of the, which considers the performance of students in the 5th and 9th grades of elementary school and 3rd grade of high school, enrolled in the public network, for the disciplines of Portuguese Language and Mathematics.
Some data point to relevant progress in increasing the percentage of students with learning levels considered appropriate. However,, already evident before the pandemic, they persist and, In many cases, they intensified.
Low Learning Levels
The most pronounced differences involving racial issues are in the 9th grade. In 2023, 45.6% of white and yellow students reached the appropriate level in Portuguese, while between blacks, brown and indigenous this index was 31.5% – a difference of 14.1 percentage points. In 2013, this distance was 9.6 points. In mathematics, the lag between the two groups grew 2.4 percentage points.
In the 5th year of elementary school, the standard is repeated. In mathematics, the lag between the two groups rose from 8.6 to 9.5 pp in Portuguese, the difference grew 0.3 pp
In high school, in learning also increased in Portuguese: the distance between groups increased by 2.9 pp in ten years. In mathematics, although general results follow low, there was a slight reduction in the lag.
For Gabriel Corrêa, director of public policies for all for education, the data show a still quite critical scenario for basic education. “We have advances that need to be recognized, but the general context is still from many students with very low learning levels. The pandemic intensified this picture and made it even more urgent and important that the government has actions aimed at overcoming Of these lags, which are often of very basic knowledge that has not been developed, ”he notes.
He points out that The look at equity is urgent. “It is inadmissible that the country has not achieved, in a decade, to reduce the huge differences in learning between students from different racial and socioeconomic groups,” he says.
