Mexican Secondary Sducation: Between The Search for Equitable Access and Educational Gap

Abstract

This work represents an approach to the situation of Mexican secondary education, which has, in recent decades, been experiencing a tension between expanding coverage for all adolescents in age of studying it, and the educational gap, characterized by several indicators such as desertion, failure, grade repetition, and age discrepancy, among others. Regarding poverty and inequality, the Mexican government must deal with the challenge of continuing to expand coverage in order to ensure equitable access to the level and improving quality through educational and social policies that can bring about substantial advances in this direction.