Tag Archives: Gilberto Guevara Niebla

Return to Class Overshadowed by Mexico’s Controversial New Curriculum

OPINION By KELIN DILLON As more than 25 million members of Mexico’s school-aged population returned to class on Monday, Aug. 29, to begin the new school year, controversy is running abound surrounding the staggered implementation of the Mexican government’s contentious and newly created curriculum – an syllabus widely criticized by international educational experts yet still vehemently defended by departing Secretary

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AMLO’s Pedagogic Reform: Education or Indoctrination?

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The education reform being imposed by Mexico’s leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration — which will affect both curriculum and texts for all levels of public education, from pre-school to high school — is nothing short of a political rewriting of history to favor the institutionalization of the president’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena)

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