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Cook, Katherine M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1932
There are a number of reasons for the increasing interest of American educators in educational progress in Mexico. From a more definitely educational standpoint they are concerned because of the large number of Mexican children enrolling in schools, especially in Southwestern States. Educators are beginning to realize that a wider knowledge of…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Foreign Countries, Mexicans, Rural Schools
Vaughan, Mary Kay – 1997
In the 1930s, Mexican rural schools became arenas for cultural politics--the process of articulating and disputing definitions of culture, from national identity to the broader sense of social behavior and meaning. Created in 1921, the Secretaria de Educacion Publica (SEP) set up federal rural schools to nationalize and modernize rural peasants.…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Educational History, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education