[Assam] Part 6--lessons from Mexican education refrom

Fri, 13 May 2005 21:40:50 -0700

Today was my last class at Harvard -atleast for this program (hopefully I graduate on June 9th, 2005)
 
Umesh
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Conclusion

 

Mexico has come a long way in addressing the access divides in primary school enrollment but still has a way to go to have optimal secondary school enrollment. Further, there are variations in enrollment and student achievement levels and students from rural, poor and indigenous groups are the losers. Subsequently, Mexico has initiated a number of programs to address the issue of educational equality, through compensatory programs and overall reform of the education system.  However, the programs have been only partially successful.

 

The efforts towards decentralization have had implementation problems, whereas, those relating to quality improvement of the system suffer from both program design as well as implementation problems. However, the experience for the compensatory programs like PARE and Progresa has been mixed. As in rest of Latin America, compensatory education programs have proved to be successful in expanding access to the poor, however, the success of these Mexican programs in terms of student achievement has been mixed, (Winkler, 2000: Reimers, 2000). We can learn from the experience of other countries to improve Mexican programs -  such as  Chile�s P900 program.
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