The educational inequalities in Brazilian basic education

This paper searches for inequalities in scholar performance in the end of basic education (8th grade) among gender, socioeconomic status, geographic region, in Brazilian public schools with more than 20 students. The assumption is that there are attributes inside and outside school that can increase the difference of performance in standardized evaluations. In this paper INEP’s data from Prova Brasil 2009, which is a census review for basic education students from public schools, were used. In our analyses we intent to know which factor is of greatest significance for differentiating performance. To do so, we adopted a multilevel model and a decomposition of variable’s effect.