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This article offers a theoretical and practical comparison between the special education systems for the deaf in Finland and Mexico. The theoretical approach of research perspectives in Chou et al. (2014) and Hellsten (2020) supports this study. We focus on how?the gaps in special education that are present as early as elementary school increase the difficulties of integrating Mexican pupils with special educational needs (SEN) at university. We review the experience in education of deaf students in Finland and the feedback of deaf teachers and researchers.?The aim of the paper is to contribute to improved access to comprehensive and high-quality bilingual education for the deaf in developing countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The last results of national and international evaluations, show that learning math is complex for Mexican students. Different plans and techniques have been implemented to counter this problem, one of them is the use of different technology in the classroom. During the last two decades, the videogame industry in Mexico has gained great traction among children, teenagers and young people, which is why the advantages of these kind of technologic tools must be harnessed. In this paper, we present a serious game to improve quantitative literacy in children studying the third grade of primary school. To design it, an iterative design model that contemplates four stages was use: planification, development, evaluation and improvement; emphasizing the instruction design. Through a quasiexperiment during a two-month period, the game was tested in a class of 33 morning shift third-grade students. The results obtained demonstrated quantitatively an increase in the students' skills. It was shown, that out of the three subconstructs that constitute quantitative literacy, two of those (natural numbers and mathematical operations) showed significant improvement after treatment. The students enjoyed and engaged with the serious game, which is why it is expected to use this tool in the future in different Mexican communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how competition impacts the technical efficiency of schools. We model competition between schools using Geographical Information System (GIS) tools in order to develop a Herfindahl–Hirschman market concentration index (HHI) and then follow a stochastic frontier analysis with alternative specifications that enable us to obtain the best unbiased efficient estimators. We find three important results. First, a higher degree of competition from public and private schools significantly increases elementary school efficiency in Mexico, as measured by the outcomes in a nationwide standardized test. Second, we find a positive, though small, association between expenditure on education and school outputs. Third, private schools perform significantly better due to the differential incentives they face in terms of competition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze first drafts of a coaching service to schools (SATE, for its acronym in Spanish) in the context of current educational reform in Mexico. To this end all legal documents and various program documents that have been released throughout 2013 and 2014 relating to basic education were analyzed. The paper is organized in three sections. The history of this type of service in Mexico is presented first; the second section includes information on the SATE as included in the legal documents of the current educational policy. In a third section some comments on what have to be taken into account for the proper implementation of a service of this nature are made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper describes the plans and programs proposed by Secretaria de Educación Pública to increase Mexican Elementary-school students' academic performance. The deficiencies are exposed within the results from ENLACE test applied to different subjects and grades. A review of the curricular status is proposed in order to determine failures and put forward substantial changes based on the comparison of traditional Education and the competency-centered Education. To promote the transition to competency-centered Education, the proposal is to select the minimum competitions to achieve by the students and to plan and implement the didactic strategies in order to promote the active participation of the students to achieve the interaction with the object of knowledge with the contextualization of the object of knowledge, the performance of several activities, the verbalization of procedures and the acquired knowledge, the feedback and evaluation of the development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We think in order to comprehend school performance, it is necessary to study it as a reality that is part of the pupil's personal formation in a concrete socio-cultural context as a dynamic rapport process between the individual and the rest of the school subjects through social meanings, assessments, attitudes, expectations and practices in school performance in a school where the student is configured as a concrete pupil, as a school performance subject who expresses and builds on his or her own practical action as well as his or her flexibility about it. The objective of this paper is to research how school individuals are formed as high or low performance elementary school pupils, of an elementary school in the suburbs of Mexico City. In particular to analyze which elements from at least two sources of the interaction, the teachers and the classmates, are incorporated by our study subjects in their self assessment and action, in a position for their personal configuration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]