Education system institutions and educational inequalities in Uruguay
2015-12-21T19:55:29Z
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This article shows how certain aspects at the secondary level of Uruguay’s public school system produce inequalities in student achievement. The 2006 edition of the Programme for International Student Assessment (pisa) (oecd, 2006a) points to three key aspects of the institutions that regulate secondary education that play a part in reproducing inequalities of origin, hindering the equalizing role that guides the education system. First, the teacher assignment mechanism has the dual effect of sending a revolving door of young and inexperienced teachers to schools in unfavourable sociocultural contexts as well as concentrating teachers with more experience in schools in favourable contexts. Second, the geography-based system for assigning students to schools reproduces the residential segregation process. Lastly, the centralized system for supplying educational and technological materials is inadequate to the needs of the schools.
ENSEÑANZA SECUNDARIA; RENDIMIENTO ESCOLAR; CALIDAD DE LA EDUCACION; EVALUACION; PERSONAL DOCENTE; ESTABLECIMIENTOS DE ENSEÑANZA; TEACHING MATERIALS; MATERIAL DIDACTICO; EDUCATION; SECONDARY EDUCATION; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; EDUCATIONAL QUALITY; EVALUATION; TEACHING PERSONNEL; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; EDUCACION;
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