Por MRNews
COVID-19 pandemic still impacts Brazilian education. Although learning levels have advanced in recent years, the country has not yet been able to resume the levels of 2019. In addition, the inequalities that were already present have been accentuated. This is what the learning study shows in Basic Education: Brazilian situation in the postpandeia, released on Monday (28), by all for education.
The study was based on the results of the Basic Education Evaluation System (SAEB), applied to students in the 5th and 9th grade of elementary and high school to evaluate performance in mathematics and Portuguese language. In all stages, the results of 2023 have not yet reached the levels achieved in 2019.
- In the 5th year of elementary school, in 2023, 55.1% of students had adequate learning in Portuguese and 43.5% in mathematics. These indices were 56.5% and 46.7% in 2019, respectively;
- In the 9th grade of elementary school, in 2023, 35.9% of students had adequate learning in Portuguese and 16.5% in mathematics. In 2019, these percentages were 35.9% and 18.4%;
- In high school, 32.4% of students reached adequate Portuguese learning and 5.2% in mathematics in 2023. Before the pandemic, in 2019, 33.5% and 6.9%, respectively.
“If the challenges were already large before the COVID-19 pandemic, the current context makes it even more urgent to strengthen public policies focused on the recomposition of learning and reducing inequalities, ensuring the right to quality education for all,” says the study.
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The publication also shows that educational inequalities between various racial and socioeconomic groups and between the federation units, which were already evident before the pandemic, or persisted or even deepened. Racial inequalities in learning, for example, highlighted in the study, in 2023 were larger than in 2013.
In 2013, the difference in the percentage of students of the 5th grade of elementary school with adequate learning between whites/yellows and blacks/brown/indigenous was 7.9 percentage points in Portuguese and 8.6 percentage points in mathematics. In 2023, after the pandemic, these differences grew to 8.2 percentage points and 9.5 percentage points, respectively.
At the end of basic education, in high school, inequalities persist too. The difference between whites/yellows and black/brown/indigenous in Portuguese went from 11.1 percentage points in 2013 to 14 percentage points in 2023. In mathematics, in the same period, from 4.4 percentage points to 3.9.
World Education Day
The dissemination of the study marks World Education Day, celebrated on April 28. The date was set after the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, in which 164 countries participated, including Brazil, which committed themselves to the development of education.
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Along with all for education, interdisciplinarity and evidence in the educational debate (IEDE) has made available data on Mathematics, also based on Saeb, which show the challenges in teaching and learning this discipline in the country. Detailed data can be consulted on the QEDU platform.
In 2023, in the 9th grade, 16% of students reached the learning considered appropriate in the discipline. In 2019, before the pandemic, the index was 18%, and in 2021, 15%. In the 3rd year of high school, the percentage of students with appropriate learning has been 5% since 2021. Inequalities are also evident in this clipping. Among white students, 8% had adequate learning in mathematics; Among the blacks, 3%.
Inequalities also appear according to the socioeconomic level. Among the richest, 61% of students have adequate learning in Portuguese in the 5th grade of elementary school. Among the poorest students, this percentage is 45%. In mathematics, there are 52% against 32%.