Mexicos education ratings

Answer 1

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"Mexico's Costly and Dysfunctional School System

By Dr. José Enrique Vallarta Rodríguez

In recent years the people of Mexico have had the perception that the nation's educational system is expensive, dysfunctional and very corrupt.

Education cannot accurately be called free in Mexico, insofar as public spending annually allotted for education exceeds the entire budgets of Latin American nations such as Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia and El Salvador. It is even greater than some developed countries, like Spain, Portugal or Luxemburg.1

Most of Mexico's budget for education, about 93 percent, goes to the payment of teacher's salaries, educators who are members of the National Education Workers Union (SNTE). The balance is for infrastructure support, construction of new schools, teacher and staff training, and to improve the academic content of study programs.2

The distribution of funds budgeted for education in Mexico cannot be compared to that of any other country in the world. The structure is obsolete, administratively it is dysfunctional, and it is very expensive for a developing nation like ours..."

The system of education in Mexico are one of the best but not classroom,

Mexico are clasificate in:

pre-kinder

2 year of kindergarden

6 of element school

3 of midle school

3 high school

the university are depent of current, mosth current finish 4 o 8 year, maestry and post-grade are depent current.

Answer 2

• Most young children attend primary school but only 62 percent reach secondary school. At secondary level about half of students drop out and only a quarter reach higher education, according to non-governmental organization Mexicanos Primero (Mexicans First), which is pushing for reform of the system.
• Around 45 percent of Mexicans finish secondary school, Mexicanos Primero says. By contrast, about 75 percent of U.S. students graduate from high school on time with a regular diploma, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
• Mexicans read less than three books a year on average, a product of low education levels and poverty, studies show.
• Mexico spends about 5 percent of gross domestic product on education, a respectable level compared to other major economies, but corruption means the money does not translate into real gains in the quality of education, experts say.
• Mexican students perform badly in the education tests run by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that measures standards in 65 industrialized countries. In the last study published in December, Mexican 15-year-olds came 46th in reading, 49th in mathematics and 51st in science.
• These lowly results contrast with Mexico's status as the world's 14th largest economy. Economists have tipped Mexico to become the world's eighth biggest by 2050.
• Mexico's performance in the OECD's education rankings have in fact improved slightly in recent years and President Felipe Calderon has tried to bring in education reforms, such as ending the practice of the selling of teachers' posts. But experts say the progress is too slow to have a big impact.

Answer 3

First some facts:

• Literacy rate is 93.1% (2010 census).
• School life expectancy is 14 years.
• Only 10% of the population has a college degree or higher.

During the last 20 years Mexico has become one of the most open economies in the world, and is consolidating itself as one of the largest manufacturing hubs in Latin America. No longer providing unrefined Natural Resources, Mexico nowadays has an increasingly diversified economy, including manufacturing of electronics, motor vehicles and aircraft parts, and has also become an important competitor on professional services and information technology. It however, still needs to improve the quality of its education and increase the availability of higher education to the masses, as only one in ten students finishes a college degree.

Answer 4

It really depends on how much it will cost, urban/rural setting and other details. Many public, rural schools on impoverished regions are basically a cardboard shack with a blackboard and some desks. Obviously, these schools barely teach children how to read and write and how to perform some simple math.

On the other hand, private schools in larger cities such as Mexico City, Guadalajara or Monterrey are quite expensive, but in some cases are much better than those found in developed countries (i.e: ASF Mexico, founded and staffed by American scholars).

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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