Argentina leads access to secondary school, but is the only country where inequality between public and private schools grew

At the beginning of the last century, Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world, and in the 1950s it was among the top 20 in the world in terms of average income, and more wealth was distributed per capita than in Japan. The situation is radically different now. For several decades, Argentina's economy was on the verge of collapse, while Japan occupied a prominent place in the list of the fastest growing economies. Unlike Argentina…

Argentina was the only country in Latin America where the socio-economic gap between students in public schools and private schools increased, according to a report based on the results of the PISA 2012 and 2022 tests.The study compared education data from seven countries in the region and showed a tendency contrary to school integration.The document published by the Observatory of Argentines for Education was prepared with data from Argentina, …

The report of the Observatory of Argentines for Education takes data from the PISA tests of 2012 and 2022 and warns that this segregation not only perpetuates social inequalities, but also affects educational quality and social cohesion.

"There is a great correlation between the socio-economic level of the student and the educational results he achieves," said Leyre Sáenz Guillén, data analyst for Argentines for Education, co-author of the latest report on the educational gap in secondary school.

In a report by the Argentine organization for Education, which analyses seven countries in the region, it is noted that, although more adolescents access secondary school, there is still a strong segregation according to socio-economic origin. In our country, this gap grew due to migration to private schools. Although Latin America achieved sustained progress in access to secondary education during the last decade, Argentina is the only country …

Latin America has high levels of inequality, although in recent decades it has shown significant progress in literacy rates, the terminality of basic studies and, of course, enrolment. However, the issue of socio-economic level and access to education remains a problem, especially in Argentina, as a recent uniform revealed that it is the country in the region with the highest school segregation. That is to say, the gap between the low, medium an…