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Mexico Abandons Crucial International Education Testing

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Three years after Mexican students were ranked last among 38 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries in math, science and reading by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the country has apparently suspended the tests altogether. Tue Halgreen, a senior analyst at PISA headquarters in France, confirmed the suspension of field tests in Mexico

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Mexico News Roundup

By RICARDO CASTILLO     LeBarón Case Falls in Fiscal’s Lap The Fiscal General of the Republic (FGR) has under its aegis “total control” over information regarding the murder of six children and three women in northern Mexico last Nov. 4, all of them members of the Mormon binational LeBarón family. Mexican Interior Secretary (SeGob) Olga Sánchez Cordero made the official announcement

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