Raça e cor nos resultados do Avalia-BH: o desempenho dos estudantes e as políticas de equidade racial na rede municipal de educação

Abstract

This paper presents the results of the research "Race and Skin-Color in the results of Avalia-BH: student performance and the politics of racial equity in Municipal Education Network", developed in the Post-Graduate Program of Professional Management and Evaluation of Public Schools from Federal University of Juiz de Fora for the Masters degree achievement. The efficiency differences between white and black students is an extreme research relevant topic in Brazil, as it can be seen on Carvalho (2005) paper, and also in reports of the National Institute of Educational ResearchsAnisio Teixeira (INEP). Given that context, the research conducted in this paper has its main focus the performance of students in 3rd, 5th and 9th grades of elementary school in the city of Belo Horizonte, obtained by means of the results from the external evaluation of the municipality, the Avalia-BH. We opted to focuses mainly in explore this evaluation system from the results in portuguese, in the year of 2013. In addition to analyzing the distribution of ethnic groups in levels of learning, a cross-check with the socioeconomic status of these students was made. We noted a lack of equity in the results, which demonstrates the need of further studies on the themes of race/skin-color, highlighting its historical invisibility. Finally, actions were indicated in the Educational Action Plan, in order to contribute to the modification of such realities.