Detail Schooling the Whole Family; Education in Mexico   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 399 no. 8733 (May 2011), page 45-46. Topik: Education Policy; Teachers; Labor Unions Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.66 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel By Latin American standards, Mexico's schools are rather good. According to the PISA survey, an international test of 15-year-olds in reading, maths and science, Mexico has the region's second-best educated children, after Chile. In maths it is improving faster than anywhere else in the 65-country study. Yet Mexico should be doing far better. Within the OECD, its education system ranks dead last. Whereas over a third of students in Singapore meet PISA's second-to-top maths grade, in Mexico less than 1% do. In maths it matches Thailand, a much poorer country. In science it is on a par with Jordan, poorer still. Although enrolment improved from 52% of 15-year-olds in 2000 to 66% in 2009, Brazil jumped from 53% to 80% in the same period. Money is not the problem: education accounts for 22% of public non-capital spending, the highest share in the OECD (though well below the group's average in dollars per pupil). But 80% of non-capital education spending goes to teachers' salaries, well above the 64% OECD average. And many of Mexico's teachers are imaginary or dead. In 2008 an audit of one funding programme found irregularities in the records of 90,000 of its recipients. This mischief is tolerated thanks to Mexico's mighty teachers' union, which with 1.2m members is Latin America's biggest. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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