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: The mid-nineteenth-century Liberal Reform separated church and state, which had a direct impact on education. President Benito Juárez sought the expansion of public schools. During the long tenure of President Porfirio Díaz, the expansion of education became a priority under a cabinet-level post held by Justo Sierra; Sierra also served President Francisco I. Madero in the early years of the Mexican Revolution . The 1917 Constitution strengthened the Mexican state's power in education, undermining the power of the Roman Catholic Church to shape the educational development of Mexicans. 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 Socialist education was repealed during the 1940s, with the administration of Manuel Ávila Camacho.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.