“…In the international literature, researchers have been engaged in investigating teachers' expectations as a possible mechanism by which performance inequalities between students from major or minority social groups, men and women, and students from more or less affluent families, can emerge and grow (TIMMERMANS, DE BOER, VAN DER WERF, 2016). Although national studies that specifically address the influence of school or class racial profiling on teacher expectations are not known, recent analyses have identified racial discrepancies in the probability of success in schools (LOUZANO, 2013) and in student assessment (GOIS, 2009), as well as socioeconomic differentials in teachers' expectations (INSTITUTO AYRTON SENNA, 2015). Research with public schools in Belo Horizonte, Brazil found different educational expectations according to gender, but not according to the students' skin color (BARBOSA; RANDALL, 2006).…”