Title: Education in Mexico - Wikipedia
Headings: Education in Mexico
Education in Mexico
Contents
Structure of the basic education system
Primary school
Junior high school
High school
Educational integration
Challenges to educational integration
Quality of education in Mexico
Higher education
Undergraduate studies
Postgraduate studies
Intercultural Universities
International education
Educational years
School years
History of education
Education in Mesoamerica Before the Spanish
Colonial-era education, 1521–1821
Education of the indigenous in Central Mexico
Education of elite Creole men
Education of girls and mixed-race children
National period – 1821–present
Post-Independence Era, 1821–1850
Reform era, 1850–1876
Porfiriato, 1876–1910
1920–1940
Education, post-1940
See also
References
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Sources
Further reading
History, Colonial era
History, Post-independence period
External links

Content: During the presidency of Álvaro Obregón in the early 1920s, his Minister of Public Education José Vasconcelos implemented a massive expansion of access to public, secular education and expanded access to secular schooling in rural areas. This work was built on and expanded in the administration of Plutarco Elías Calles by Moisés Sáenz. In the 1930s, the Mexican government under Lázaro Cárdenas mandated socialist education in Mexico and there was considerable push back from the Roman Catholic Church as an institution. Socialist education was repealed during the 1940s, with the administration of Manuel Ávila Camacho. A number of private universities have opened since the mid-twentieth century. The Mexican Teachers' Union (SNTE), founded in the late 1940s, has had tremendous national political power. The Mexican federal government has undertaken reforms to improve education in Mexico, which have been resisted by the SNTE. Education in Mexico is currently regulated by the Secretariat of Public Education ( Spanish: Secretaría de Educación Pública) ( SEP ). Education standards are set by this Ministry at all levels except in "autonomous" universities chartered by the government (e.g., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ).