Initial notes on educational quality: the IDEB results and socioeconomic factors

Abstract

This paper brings a initial discussion about brazilian education quality, obtained through the IDEB - Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (Brazilian Education Development Index). This work was drawn from a qualitative approach together documentary and bibliographic analisys, using IDEB data, illiteracy rate, GDP per capita, GDP and Human Development Index (HDI) of brazilian states. These indicators was shown without pretension of statistical analisys, but urging a thinking/problematization for to understand that the education quality depends on many factors like social and economic conditions of students , which requires effective public policies for improving for everyone.

Keywords

• Qualidade educacional. IDEB. Fatores socioeconômicos. Políticas Educacionais.