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Unicef: En Raqqa hay más de 40.000 niños sirios en peligro

UNICEF – Siria/13 de junio de 2017/Fuente: http://www.panorama.com.ve

Los combates para recuperar el control del feudo del grupo extremista Estado Islámico en Siria, la ciudad de Raqqa, ponen en peligro a más de 40.000 niños, dijo el viernes la agencia de Naciones Unidas para la infancia.

La violencia provocó desplazamientos masivos dentro y en los alrededores de la ciudad, haciendo que unos 80.000 menores se conviertan en desplazados internos y vivan en refugios temporales y campos, señaló UNICEF en un comunicado.

Fuerzas sirias respaldadas por Estados Unidos lanzaron una ofensiva sobre Raqqa a principios de semana, y los bombardeos aéreos de la coalición encabezada por Washington sobre la zona se han intensificado.

“Se estima de 40.000 niños siguen atrapados en condiciones extremadamente peligrosas en Raqqa. Muchos están atrapados en el fuego cruzado”, dijo el director regional de UNICEF, Geert Cappelaere, que pidió a ambos bandos que proporcionen corredores seguros para quienes quieren salir de la ciudad.

Fuente de la Noticia:

http://www.panorama.com.ve/mundo/Unicef-En-Raqqa-hay-mas-de-40.000-ninos-sirios-en-peligro-20170609-0082.html

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United Kingdom: Who is Justine Greening and what has she done as Education Secretary?

United Kingdom/june 13, 2017/By: Rachael Pells/Source :http://www.independent.co.uk

Industry leaders speak favourably of the education minister, who has been re-appointed despite perceived differences in opinion to the Prime Minister.

Justine Greening has been re-appointed as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, following another cabinet reshuffle.

Despite winning back her Putney constituency seat with a much reduced majority vote of 1,554 down from 10,180, education industry leaders appear to be singing Ms Greening’s praises as a sensible choice for education.

In the run up to the general election, some had speculated that Ms Greening – herself known to be unenthusiastic about grammar schools – might be replaced by someone whose views were more in line with the Prime Minister’s.

The fact she has kept her role, however, has  been viewed by many as a further sign that Theresa May’s much-loved grammar school expansion plans could be dead and buried.

Who is Justine Greening?

The daughter of steel workers from Rotherham, Ms Greening was educated at a state comprehensive school.

She became MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields in 2005, when she regained a traditionally Tory seat from a Labour stronghold, and was appointed shadow Treasury minister.

The former prime minister David Cameron moved her to become Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government in 2009.

She entered the Cabinet in 2011 after being appointed as Secretary of State for Transport before being reshuffled to Secretary of State for International Development until last year.

Before taking over as Education Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities from Nicky Morgan, Ms Greening made a public announcement that she was in a same-sex relationship – making her one of very few openly LGBT members in the Cabinet.

Tweeting just two days after the EU referendum vote, she said: «Today’s a good day to say I’m in a happy same sex relationship, I campaigned for Stronger In but sometimes you’re better off out».

What has she achieved in her first year as Education Secretary?

Following her appointment in July 2016, Ms Greening moved quickly to scrap a number of policies, including forced SATs re-sits for 11 year-olds and the controversial plan to force all schools in under-performing areas to become part of an academy chain.

While she initially followed suit in praising Ms May’s grammar school plans, later interviews with the Secretary of State revealed her personal difference in opinion.

Ms Greening was praised for seeing compulsory sex and relationships education pushed through for all schools, and is also known to have a good relationship with teaching unions – despite being heckled over the grammar schools pledge at the Association of School and College Leaders conference in March.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT, said he welcomed her reappointment.

“In the last few months she has shown a willingness to engage with the profession on important issues, such as primary assessment and PSHE, paving the way for crucial changes in policy,” he said.

“NAHT has worked well with the minister on the current consultation on primary assessment, and we look forward to continuing that to drive through the positive changes this contains.

“The biggest challenge for the minister will be school funding and she will need to argue vigorously for the needs of schools with her cabinet colleagues,” he added.

What can we expect from her now?

Since the Tories lost their majority in the election vote, it remains unclear which education policies will be put forward – if any – in the coming weeks and months.

Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday Politics programme, Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs and a prominent supporter of grammar schools, said the party would have to “trim down our policies carefully to what we think Parliament will support”.

Another source close to Downing Street was reported to have admitted the controversial grammar schools plans were “dead” thanks to Ms May’s lost majority.

Others have speculated that the department will have no choice but to reassess school spending, following increasing pressure from school leaders and a series of budgeting blunders.

Teaching unions on Friday warned that if the Government decides to press ahead with cuts to school spending – calculated at a real-terms loss of 7 per cent per pupil – campaign efforts would “intensify” – hinting that strike action could be on the horizon.

Source:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/who-is-justine-greening-education-secretary-tory-conservative-election-2017-cabinet-theresa-may-a7786296.html

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Ghana: Girls’ Education Network Launched

Ghana/13 june 2017/By: PRESS RELEASE/Source: http://allafrica.com

The renowned Ghanaian educationist, Dr. KwegyirAggrey once famously said «if you educate a male you educate an individual but if you educate a female you educate a nation.» This quote demonstrates the importance and the benefits to the society of female or girl-child education.

To give meaning to the above quote and to ensure that issues around female education are given priority attention, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) through Camfed Ghana provided funding for the establishment of a Girls’ Education Network (GEN) which was on May 29, 2017 launched in Koforidua.

Seen as a step towards supporting the Girls’ Education Unit (GEU) to achieve its mandate, the GEU, together with key stakeholders in girls’ education in Ghana, took the initiative to establish the GEN and an Advisory Body. The GEN will be anchored on the Gender in Education Policy (GEP) and is a network of government departments and agencies, civil society organizations, donor partners, education coalitions and other practitioners interested in promoting quality education for girls in Ghana.

The philosophy underpinning the establishment of the GEN is premised on the fact that education, particularly girls’ education, is a fundamental human right and key to breaking the cycle of poverty. It is envisaged that the GEN platform will enable the systematic coordination and monitoring of all current and future efforts for girls’ education in Ghana in order to ensure that they align with the national vision for girls’ education, as well as with the needs of all Ghanaian girls.

The work of the GEN is also intended to contribute towards the achievement of SDGs 4 and 5 and the actualisation of the GEP which aims to promote inclusive and quality education, and to achieve gender equality and empowerment for all girls.The Advisory Body of the GEN will, in an advisory capacity, provide strategic support and push ahead the functioning of the GEN agenda and help the GEU to achieve its mandate.

The Director of Basic Education and Acting Deputy Director-General of GES, Mrs. Cynthia Bosumtwi-Sam, who was the Guest of Honour at the event, expressed gratitude to the participants for their role in supporting girls’ education and urged them to continue to work hard. Mrs. Bosumtwi-Sam affirmed the need for organisations in girls’ education to get registered to allow for effective monitoring and evaluation of their activities in the country.

She charged the participants to propose practical policies and programmes on girls’ education as they strengthen their network with education authorities as to how their policy proposals could be adopted and implemented. She launched the GEN and tasked the members to follow due processes and procedures in all of their consultations and deliberations with the GEU and other stakeholders.

Source:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201706121215.html

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Mediterranean Film and Human Rights Association to Spotlight Right to Education at National Library

Mediterranean/june 13, 2017/By Amira El Masaiti/Source: https://www.moroccoworldnews.com

The Association of Mediterranean Film and Human Rights Meetings (ARMCDH) will organize the sixth annual “All Nighter Cinema Human Rights” on June 16 and 17 at the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco (BNRM), under theme of the “right to education.”

After having underlined the Arab Spring in 2012, Women’s Rights in 2013, Justice in 2014, Migration in 2015 and Children’s Rights in 2016, the Right to Education has been chosen by the ARMCDH for this year’s edition as a pertinent topic for any discussion of human rights.

The right to education is one the fundamental principles of the International Declaration of Human Rights (DIDH), and the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CIDE), particularly in the light of a troubled world and current national affairs.

The event aims to approach the issue from a cinematographic perspective through a series of screenings in which the films focus on various issues related to education and teaching, followed by a panel discussion of experts, actors, education institutions and associations.

The event will open with an open-air screening evening, free to the public from 7 pmuntil sunrise.

The third edition of the F’tour Cinéma will run parallel to the screenings, allowing cinema enthusiasts to get their Iftar meal in front of the screen, which will feature fiction films, documentaries, short films and feature films, representing six countries; namely, Italy, Germany, Spain, Morocco, Egypt and Algeria.

Movies to be featured during the event are:

“2020” by Mohamed Said Zerbouh (Morocco)

“The Maestras of the Republic” by Pilar Perez Solano (Spain)

“Excuse My French” by Omar Salama (Egypt)

“China Is Still Far” by Malek Bensmail (Algeria)

“Salvatore-Questa” by Gian Paolo Cugno (Italy)

“The Wave” by Dennis Gansel (Germany)

On Saturday June 17 at 10 pm, the auditorium of the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco (BNRM) will host a debate on the right to education. The event’s initiators have invited the public to attend to interact with the panel discussion during the debate.

Speakers invited to participate are:

Amina Lamrini Ouahabi, President of the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA), Doctor of Educational Sciences and specialist in educational models for human rights education.

Nadia Bernoussi, member of the Higher Council for Education, Training and Scientific Research (EESC), professor of constitutional law and vice-president of the International Academy of Constitutional Law.

Fouad Chafiki, Director of the Curricula and Central Director in charge of pedagogical research at the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Phinith Chanthalangsy, Philosopher, Program Specialist for the Social and Human Sciences at the UNESCO Regional Office – Maghreb.

The debate will be moderated by Abdellah Tourabi, a political scientist, journalist and moderator of the 2M press conferences.

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Mediterranean Film and Human Rights Association to Spotlight Right to Education at National Library

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EEUU: Trump’s education cuts aren’t ‘devastating,’ they’re smart

EEUU/13 june 2017/By:Williamson M. Evers and Vicki E. Alger/Source:http://www.latimes.com

It’s the end of the world as we know it – at least that’s what some people would have us believe about President Trump’s education budget.

It’s “a devastating blow to the country’s public education system,” according to National School Boards Assn. CEO Thomas Gentzel. More like a “wrecking ball,” says Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Assn. teachers’ union. No, it’s a veritable “assault on the American Dream,” insists John B. King Jr., former Obama administration secretary of education.

Such hyperbole is reminiscent of the early 1980s, when President Reagan’s opponents battled his administration’s education cuts, and it’s about as inaccurate today as it was back then.

Trump wants to reduce the U.S. Department of Education’s discretionary budget by $9.2 billion, from $68.3 billion to $59.1 billion. Close to two-thirds of that reduction (63%) comes from eliminating programs that are duplicative or just don’t work.

The administration is proposing a 10% cut in TRIO programs and a cut of almost a third in GEAR UP programs. GEAR UP and TRIO (which despite the name consists of nine programs) are supposed to help at-risk students who hope to go to college, but who might not make it.

At the behest of the Education Department, the Mathematica Policy Research Group studied a TRIO program and found weaknesses, which it first reported in 2004. The final report found “no detectable effects” on college-related outcomes, including enrollment and completion of bachelor’s or associate’s degrees. In a striking acknowledgement that these programs don’t hold up under scrutiny, lobbyists for the programs got Congress to ban the Education Department from setting up control-group evaluations of TRIO and GEAR UP.

Another sign of dysfunction is that — despite a demonstrable lack of success — grants to run TRIO and GEAR UP programs almost always get renewed. For example, in California, 82% of those who had grants in 2006 to manage this “no detectable effects” TRIO program still had those grants a decade later.

The K-12 programs proposed for elimination in the Trump budget are similarly ineffective.

Dynarski worked at the U.S. Department of Education during the Clinton administration and directed the 21st Century Community Learning Centers’ national evaluation while he was a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. The three evaluations published between 2003 and 2005 concluded that the achievement of participating students was virtually the same, but their behavior was worse, compared with their peers who weren’t in the program.

Another program deservedly put on the chopping block is the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program. Enacted in 2001 as part of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act, this program gave poorly performing schools fistfuls of cash to turn themselves around and raise student achievement. Turned out the SIG program was more buck than bang — lots more.

Total SIG program funding under the Bush administration was less than $126 million. Regular annual appropriations skyrocketed during Obama’s presidency, starting at $526 million. They remained near or north of a half billion dollars throughout his administration, totaling more than $7 billion to date — including a one-time infusion of $3 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.

The Obama administration publicly revealed the SIG program’s colossal failure on Jan. 18, 2017, just hours before President Obama’s appointees departed. According to the final evaluation by the American Institutes for Research and Mathematica Policy Research for the Education Department, SIG had “no significant impacts” on math achievement, reading achievement, high school graduation, or college enrollment across school and student subgroups.

Commenting on the evaluation, Andrew R. Smarick, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of education, called SIG “the greatest failure in the history of the U.S. Department of Education.” Seven billion dollars in taxpayer money was spent, and the results were the same, as Smarick put it, “as if this program had never existed.”

Cutting costly, ineffective government programs isn’t the end of the world. It’s part of “[our] moral duty… to make our government leaner and more accountable,” as Trump stated during a budget meeting in February. His budgetary effort to cut waste includes the Education Department for good reason.

Williamson M. Evers is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a former U.S. assistant secretary of education for planning, evaluation and policy development. Vicki E. Alger is a research fellow at the Independent Institute. Evers was the leader of and Alger a member of the Trump transition’s agency review for the U.S. Department of Education.

Source:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-evers-alger-trump-education-cuts-good-20170612-story.html

 

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Jóvenes sudafricanos reclaman severas medidas contra violadores

Sudáfrica/12 junio 2017/Fuente: Prensa Latina

Jóvenes sudafricanos analizan hoy en Durban soluciones innovadoras frente a los desafíos del vih-sida, que identificaron con el acceso a las oportunidades económicas, la atención médica, el creciente número de muchachas infectadas y las dinámicas de género.

La Conferencia Juvenil de Educación Superior sobre el vih-sida, que termina hoy dos días de sesiones en esa ciudad sudafricana a orillas del océano Índico, debate asimismo la necesidad de imponer sentencias más severas, incluyendo la de pena de muerte, para aquellos que violan y asesinan mujeres.

Según estadísticas divulgadas en este encuentro en Sudáfrica más de dos mil jóvenes de 15 a 24 años son infectadas cada semana con el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (vih).

Lerato Mortulane, presidenta de la campaña ‘Ella conquista’ que desarrolla el Departamento Nacional de Salud, participó en uno de los paneles de esta reunión que abordó el tema de los abusos y asesinatos de muchachas y exhortó a las jóvenes a romper el silencio en asuntos que las afectan.

Estamos cansados de ver diariamente la muerte de jóvenes en silencio porque temen avergonzar a otras personas. ‘Llegó el momento de que jóvenes mujeres nombren y avergüencen a otros. No moriremos en silencio’, añadió.

En la Conferencia, la primera dama sudafricana Thobeka Madiba-Zuma explicó nuevos programas de su fundación que bajo el título ‘Escuchen a las niñas’ tiene la intención de darle voz a las que sufren los abusos y son las más vulnerables dentro de la población.

La señora Madiba-Zuma expresó que la cifra de infectadas con el vih supera ya las dos mil 300 jóvenes por semana, un hecho que calificó de alarmante e inquietante.

Muchos de los participantes se quejaron de clínicas que se niegan a brindar contraceptivos, del poder patriarcal y de lo que denominaron ‘prácticas culturales arcaicas que dificultan el progreso’, mientras otros exhortaron a restaurar la pena de muerte para quienes violan y asesinan mujeres, y crear nuevas oportunidades para la juventud.

La reunión en Durban antecede la Octava Conferencia sobre el Sida que comienza esta semana.

Fuente noticia: http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?o=rn&id=92441&SEO=jovenes-sudafricanos-reclaman-severas-medidas-contra-violadores

Fuente imagen:http://noticias.upr.edu.cu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/20160523_110638.jpg

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México: Nuño olvidó la educación rural, dicen académicos, y 10.3 millones de menores habitan en el campo

México/12 junio 2017/Fuente: sinembargo

La “verdadera revolución educativa” que traerá el Nuevo Modelo Educativo, como lo definió el Secretario de Educación Pública Aurelio Nuño Mayer, parece no incluir a la educación rural.

Académicos y expertos criticaron que este nuevo modelo sigue sin contemplar de manera correcta la diversidad del país y opta por incluir a todos los grupos en uno solo, generando un “currículum único”.

Según el Inegi, el 26.4 por ciento (10.3 millones) de los niños y adolescentes de menos de 17 años del país viven en zonas rurales.  Sin embargo, los expertos señalan que en el proyecto impulsado por el Gobierno federal los habitantes del campo serán capacitados para vivir y desarrollarse en una sociedad globalizada.

 “Hay cada vez más educación para las zonas rurales, pero cada vez menos educación rural”, sostiene Benjamín Berlanga Gallardo, profesor de la Universidad Campesina Indígena en Red de Puebla.

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Frente a la implementación en México del Nuevo Modelo Educativo desarrollado por la Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) y que forma parte de la Reforma Educativa, investigadores criticaron que a pesar de lo vanguardista que se presentó el plan, guarda una similitud con el que llegó a sustituir: la exclusión de la educación rural.

Benjamín Berlanga Gallardo, profesor de la Universidad Campesina Indígena en Red de Puebla, aseguró que actualmente debe retomarse la educación rural, entendiéndola como la vía para recuperar lo campesino y la idea de serlo. Sin embargo, este concepto se enfrenta a la instauración del Nuevo Sistema Educativo.

Para el académico, la educación rural se trata de un proyecto de resistencia, aunado o ligado a las luchas campesinas y de los indígenas.

Criticó que el Nuevo Modelo federal no toma en cuenta a la educación rural, porque desde la década de los años 80 se cree que las vidas de los campesinos son vidas que no merecen la pena ser lloradas o que socialmente no merecen la pena vivirse; que a esa propuesta le hace falta definir desde qué valores, desde qué idea de ser sujeto, desde qué idea de ser ser humano se desarrollará.

“Desaparecen en la conceptualización de la política pública los campesinos y las campesinas; y lo que hay es una inmensa operación de igualación de la educación para todas y todos los mexicanos”, dijo.

Y lanzó una paradoja: “hay cada vez más educación para las zonas rurales, pero cada vez menos educación rural”. Esto porque hay cada vez más cobertura educativa en las zonas rurales, tanto en educación básica como en bachillerato, pero hay una renuncia explícita a la educación rural, de un “ser sujeto” desde lo campesino y desde lo rural.

Pidió dejar de pensar la educación rural como un problema de cobertura, de infraestructura y de rezago y verla como una educación que tenga que ver con lo campesino y aseguró que una oferta de educación para este sector no la habría hasta que no se construya otro tipo de país, en el que la vida de los habitantes del campo cuente.

De acuerdo con los último datos proporcionados por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (Inegi), en México hay 39.2 millones de niños, niñas y adolescentes, de estos el 26.4 por ciento (10.3 millones) viven en zonas rurales.

Mientras que de casi 4 millones de niñas, niños y adolescentes indígenas (3-17 años), poco más de 1.8 millones hablan alguna lengua indígena, de los cuales más de 1.4 millones habitan en localidades rurales, aproximadamente 312 mil habitan en localidades semiurbanas, y más de 100 mil, en localidades urbanas; todos ellos con derecho a recibir educación en su lengua.

Una niña de la comunidad de Maruata, aprovecha la tarde para estudiar. Ella estudia en una de zonas marginadas de la Sierra Costa de Michoacan. Foto: Cuartoscuro

Lesvia Rosas Carrasco, investigadora independiente y miembro de la Red de Investigación en Educación Rural, aseguró que los altos niveles de desigualdad que hay en el país se reflejan en el sistema educativo, cuando es la educación la que debe contribuir a revertir la desigualdad.

Criticó también que el Nuevo Modelo Educativo trata de manera genérica a la población rural, indígena, afrodescendiente y migrante y los engloba en una categoría de grupos marginados y vulnerables.

El problema, dijo la investigadora, es que ese método “acumula déficits marcados que propician el abandono escolar, que tienen menos oportunidades de desarrollar al máximo su potencial”.

El Nuevo Modelo, sostuvo, se desarrollaría bajo una idea de globalización y por lo tanto, quienes estudien ahí están capacitados para vivir y desarrollarse sólo en ese tipo de sociedad.

“Posiblemente, debido a ese enfoque, es que en el documento no se hace una distinción entre el medio rural y el medio urbano, no hay una definición de población rural o de lo rural, de las condiciones de vida y las características de los niños y jóvenes que habitan esas zonas, de lo que para ellos significa la escuela a la que actualmente asisten, del papel que le corresponde desempeñar a la educación en esas zonas o para esa población, y tampoco se defienda escuela rural”.

Este modelo, dijo, al igual que el que fue elaborado hace 100 años sigue sin poder reflejar la diversidad que caracteriza al país. Aunque en el documento se reconoce la diversidad de escuelas (y de manera reiterada) no hay un capítulo en el que se analice la situación de cada una de ellas.

“Si se piensa en la población rural como deficitaria; y en las escuelas rurales, multigrado, indígenas, de jornaleros agrícolas, para migrantes, telesecundarias y telebachillerato también como deficitarias ante otra modalidad educativa, difícilmente por muchos apoyos que se les hagan llegar lograrán desarrollar todo su potencial, que es uno de los propósitos del Nuevo Modelo Educativo”, señaló.

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En su apartado “Inclusión y Equidad”, el Nuevo Modelo señala que en términos generales, los estudiantes en situación de desventaja económica y social enfrentan grandes obstáculos en sus trayectorias educativas y no desarrollan los aprendizajes más relevantes para su vida actual y futura, siendo las poblaciones indígenas, migrantes, rurales, afrodescendientes y con discapacidad son las más afectadas por estos rezagos.

El documento luego abunda en el tema de la cobertura, que en efecto, ha aumentado, aunque el reto ahora está en la educación media superior, superior y preescolar, particularmente en los niveles de ingreso más bajos y los grupos tradicionalmente excluidos.

El documento agrega que “las desigualdades se manifiestan en el propio aprovechamiento de las niñas, niños y jóvenes, así como en la discriminación que viven cotidianamente al interior del sistema educativo. De manera crónica, las personas que provienen de los estratos de menores ingresos, los estudiantes de turnos vespertinos, los hablantes de lenguas indígenas, los habitantes urbanos que residen en zonas marginadas, quienes forman parte de comunidades indígenas, los residentes de las localidades rurales y las poblaciones de regiones menos desarrolladas, obtienen resultados más bajos, acumulan déficits marcados que propician el abandono escolar y con ello tienen menos posibilidades de desarrollar al máximo su potencial”.

Se propone una educación de calidad para todos, pero en el apartado que corresponde a la atención de población indígena y a hijos de jornales agrícolas migrantes se aborda sobre la educación intercultural y bilingüe y la creación de Consejos Escolares de Participación Social.

El objetivo del plan es garantizar el acceso a una educación de calidad a todos los niños y jóvenes; que se aborte el modelo de memorizar y se abra paso al inglés, a aprender a aprender, que es una propuesta que la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) implementó en su bachillerato desde 1971.

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Fuente: http://www.sinembargo.mx/11-06-2017/3231714

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