O artigo investiga quais características escolares estão associadas ao aumento do desempenho médio das escolas medido por meio dos testes de Matemática, da 4ª série do Ensino Fundamental, pelo SAEB 2001. Investiga, especificamente, características escolares promotoras de eficácia escolar e de eqüidade intra-escolar, e identifica e avalia o efeito sobre a eqüidade de características escolares associadas, simultaneamente, à eficácia escolar e ao aumento das desigualdades dentro das unidades escolares.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) contain a set of 17 measures to foster sustainable development across many areas. It offers a good opportunity to reinvigorate sustainable development research for two main reasons. First, it comprises many areas of SD research, which have become mainstream thanks to the UN SDGs. Second, the fact that the UN and its member countries have committed to attaining SDGs by 2030 has added a sense of urgency to the need to perform quality research on SD on the one hand, and reiterates the need to use the results of this research on the other. Even though the basic concept of sustainability goes back many centuries, it has only recently appeared on the international political agenda. This is partly due to an awakening of the fact that the human ecological pressure on the planet is still much larger than what nature can renew or compensate for. Based on this state of affairs, this paper presents an outline of the process leading to the agreement on the UN SDGs, and looks at some of the ecological aspects as a result of continued pressure of human activities on natural resources. Furthermore, a set of research needs is proposedalso based holistically on updated research trendsdiscussing the degree of urgency of some measures and explaining why the UN SDGs need to be accorded greater priority in international sustainable development research efforts.

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