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La organización de los estudios en la Nueva España. Mexico City: Cultura, 1963. Gómez Canedo, Lino. La educación de los marginados durante la època colonial. Mexico City: Porrúa 1982. Gonzalbo Aizpuru, Pilar. "Education: Colonial" in Encyclopedia or Mexico, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, pp. 434–438. Kobayashi, José María.
A World Economic Forum report stated that Mexico invested, as of 2009, a relatively high 5.3 percent of its GDP in education, yet its primary education system ranks poorly. The WEF's report blames this underperformance on the SNTE's opposition to reforms which could increase the effectiveness of education funding. [ 12 ]
Mexican flag and banners Murals by Diego Rivera. In Mexico, the Secretariat of Public Education (in Spanish Secretaría de Educación Pública, SEP) is a federal government authority with cabinet representation and the responsibility for overseeing the development and implementation of national educational policy and school standards.
In 1914, Walter Thurston, later to become the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, graduated from The American School. In 1914, after the United States occupation of Veracruz, so few Americans were left in Mexico City that the high school was closed after the 1915 class graduated, restarting with a freshman class in 1917. One of the six graduates of the ...
Compared to the US and Canada, Mexico uses a grading system that can be converted into the US's letter grade equivalency. For example, a Mexican numeral grade of 90 can be equivalent to the US's letter grade of an A. An 80 can be converted to a B, and so on. The following chart shows the following GPA range and their equivalencies.
Voters in Mexico go to the polls for local elections in the states of Mexico, Coahuila, Nayarit, Puebla and Hidalgo. [14] August. August 8 – Monterrey Tech bombing: A homemade bomb explodes at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Estado de México Campus in Atizapán de Zaragoza. The bomb was sent to a professor of robotics ...
Children in Mexico can also apply for social welfare, depending on their circumstances. One protection available to them is the DIF (Desarrollo Integral de la Familia), which is a program for family services that are state-run. [12] Children can also benefit from the Prospera program (formerly known as Oportunidades) as mentioned above.
The Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas is established. The Centro de Investigaciones en Optica is founded. The Ollin Yoliztli Prize is awarded for the first time. The Palacio de Lecumberri starts housing the General National Archive; July 31–August 11: Hurricane Allen. October 24: 1980 Oaxaca earthquake.