Facing school segregation in the Dominican Republic: A study on socioeconomic status and its effects on segregation at the primary education level
The goal of this article is to estimate the magnitude of school segregation according to the students’ socioeconomic status in primary education in the Dominican Republic; specifically in schools situated in the urban areas. We exploited the information provided by the National Diagnostic...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Perfiles Educativos |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/59552 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://perfileseducativos.unam.mx/iisue_pe/index.php/perfiles/article/view/59552 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Educational equity Socioeconomic status Basic education Social inequality school segregation Equidad educativa Nivel socioeconómico Educación básica Desigualdad social Segregación escolar |
| Sumario: | The goal of this article is to estimate the magnitude of school segregation according to the students’ socioeconomic status in primary education in the Dominican Republic; specifically in schools situated in the urban areas. We exploited the information provided by the National Diagnostic Assessment 2017, which assesses all third-grade primary school students. Our study analyzes the cases of 157,754 students enrolled in 7,791 schools located in the 18 Regional Educational Directorates in which the Dominican educational system is divided. We also used the Gorard and Isolation indexes with the socioeconomic index as the criterion variable, for four minority groups. The results indicate that the magnitude of school segregation in primary schools is medium-high, showing that students from families with a higher socioeconomic status tend to exercise more segregation than others. We need to reduce school segregation in order to shorten the social inequalities of the country´s educational system. |
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