Mexico Reduces Its Illiteracy Rate to 3.8%: Public Education Secretariat
In the first year of a national adult-literacy drive, 277,000 people learned to read and write, and the INEA has now reached 32.4 million Mexicans in 45 years.
Mario Delgado
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Ministry of Education Backtracks; Social Pressure Derails Plan to End School Year Early
After four days of protests from all sectors of society, Mario Delgado announced the reversal. The initial change had been justified as necessary due to a heatwave & to serve the World Cup.
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An Unfortunate Proposal
Everything indicates that the impact of sending 28 million children and adolescents home was not properly assessed in a context where the vast majority of parents do not have the time or resources necessary to adapt to such a significant and sudden change in their routines.
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Mexican Public Education at Risk Again
Marx Arriaga’s firing is a part of an attempt to reverse progress, undo the advances made by AMLO’s administration & to try to privatize and commodify public education once again.
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The Dispute Over Public Education
Currently, there is no voice with pedagogical authority to respond to the criticisms leveled at the textbooks and explain and justify the necessary modifications. An inexperienced and controversial official like Nadia López García will hardly be able to extinguish this fire.
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CLICKS JULY 15
Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Communism coming to Mexico soon warns Bishop, energy reforms, steel tarrifs, rising wages for unionized workers, tech corp profiteering and the border issue.
