Transitioning from secondary to high school in Mexico: The challenge of universal coverage
The Mexican Constitution has established that universal access to highschool education must be achieved by 2021. The high drop-out rates at the transition between secondary and high school present an obstacle in the way of this goal. In this article we analyze two aspects of this transition: seconda...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Perfiles Educativos |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/58412 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://perfileseducativos.unam.mx/iisue_pe/index.php/perfiles/article/view/58412 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | High school education Completion rate Absorption in education Education transition Education opportunities Education inequality Educación media superior Eficiencia terminal Absorción en educación Transición educativa Oportunidades educativas Desigualdad educativa |
| Sumario: | The Mexican Constitution has established that universal access to highschool education must be achieved by 2021. The high drop-out rates at the transition between secondary and high school present an obstacle in the way of this goal. In this article we analyze two aspects of this transition: secondary school graduations and absorption in the official survey conducted by Mexico’s statistics agency – INEGI’s Encuesta Intercensal of 2015. With these two variables we constructed aggregated indicators at both a national and state level. We also used logistic regression models as dependent variables. The variations between federal entities are not entirely explained by their socioeconomic levels; also, the opportunities for making the transition to highschool education continue to be linked to a combination of disadvantages based on where children live, underlying social inequalities and sociodemographic aspects that pose an enormous challenge to attaining universal coverage by the beginning of the next decade. |
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