Schooling the whole family
Teaching is improving, but slowly. Getting parents involved could speed things up
WITHIN the bright-blue and green walls of Emilio Carranza, a three-classroom primary school in a rural part of the state of Puebla, a lesson is engrossed in a book of “Ecological Experiments and Facts”. Hands shoot up with enthusiasm, undimmed even by a drill of singing the lengthy national and state anthems in the baking school yard. The school is an example of how Mexico has been using parents to help improve its education—long overdue in a country where high spending has failed to produce results to match.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline "Schooling the whole family"
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