Problems In Education
Even with the progress made by the educational system, in 1990
over 450 thousand children from 10 to 14 years where still without knowing how to read and write. In the same way as other education indicators, illiteracy in Mexico is not
homogeneous in federal entities, in the rural and urban populations or in specific groups of
population, including indigenous groups.
There are entities with illiteracy rates less than five percent, far below the average
national, as the Federal District with 4%, Nuevo Leon and Baja California with 4.7% each. In the opposite extreme, there are entities with rates above 20%, with 20.1% as Hidalgo, Guerrero with 26.8%, 27.5% with Oaxaca or Chiapas with 30%. In total there are 17 entities with smaller percentages to national and 15 with higher percentages.
In accordance with illiteracy rates of federal entities, the INE has the following
Classification: a) the structural illiteracy, including illiterate rural indigenous living in
extreme poverty (30% Chiapas, Oaxaca 27.5%, 26.8% Guerrero, Hidalgo 20.6%, Puebla
19.2%, 18.2% Veracruz, Michoacan 17.3%), b) regional illiteracy, is characterized by regions
An index higher than the national average but without presenting general problems (15.8% Yucatan, Campeche 15.4%, 15.3% Queretaro, San Luis Potosi 14.9% and 12.6% Tabasco); c) the residual illiteracy is one that is virtually eradicated (Federal District and north of the country: Nuevo Leon, Baja California Sur) .
More than half of the illiterates live in rural areas. In populations under 2 500
3277390 illiterate people are concentrated, ie 53.2% of all people who can not read
or write. Indigenous groups have very high rates of illiteracy. The 40.7% of the population
Indian national aged 15 and over can neither read nor write. This is more than one and a half million people in economic, social and educational extremely...
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