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This paper addresses two issues that are key to Mexico's violence and crime prevention policy. The first part reviews how the prevention policy has been shaped over the past 10 years. In the second, the effects of Mexico's Programa Nacional de Prevención del Delito (PRONAPRED, National Crime Prevention Programme) is analysed using Propensity Score Matching. Using data at the municipal level and taking the homicide and gun-related injuries rates as output variables, we found that PRONAPRED only significantly affects the homicide rate; however, that effect is the opposite of what is expected. The results of this research show that, in order to achieve the intended results, violence and crime prevention policies in Mexico require significant changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some findings of a distance learning programs study from a study of distance learning programs, which methodological design was inspired by a self assessment model for higher education programs designed by ANUIES, this model was applied in the different distance learning programs of the Universidad Juarez Autónoma de Tabasco. This model is complemented by a historical and administrative search and systematization of information. The results allowed on the one hand, detect some failures of the subsystems involved in the System of Open and Distance Education, and the other hand, analyze the possibilities, as well as the limitations of such models. [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]