Estimación de la magnitud de la segregación escolar en América Latina

Abstract

This research aims to estimate the magnitude of the effect of socioeconomic, ethnic-cultural and immigrant/native school segregation in Latin America. To this end, we collected data from the database of the Third Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study, TERCE, of the Latin American Laboratory for Evaluation of the Quality of Education, LLECE (2013), of the Regional Office of Education for Latin America and The Caribbean of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, OREALC/UNESCO, to estimate the index of dissimilarity of a sample of 105,847 students of primary education level in 5,733 schools located in 15 countries. Results indicate that school segregation is very high in Latin American countries. The average school segregation by socioeconomic level is 0.56, by ethnic origin is 0.92, and by immigrant/native origin is 0.80.