Education in Mexico

By miskii
  • Period: 1 CE to 1521

    Prehispanic Education

  • Period: 200 to

    Modern Day

  • 1500

    Mexicas and Mayans

    They used to teach values regarding Education, astronomy, military, religion and social
  • Period: 1521 to

    Colonial Era Education

  • 1523

    Fransiscan frails arrival

    They founded the first schools for the indigenous populations
  • 1536

    Founding of the "Colegio De Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco"

    it was the first institution of superior education in the whole American Continent
  • 1551

    Real y Pontificia Universidad de México

    First university in the american continent
  • 1570

    More schools are founded all over New Spain

    jesuits kept funding more schools to distribute throughout the whole Colony
  • Period: to 1010

    Education after the independence

  • Freedom of teaching

    The Decree of freedom of teaching was stablished

  • Founding of the "Direccion General de Instruccion Publica"

  • Liberal Reform

    Free, mandatory and religiously neutral education (Reform Laws)
  • Period: to

    Porfiriato

    Impulse of technical and normalist education, with the issue of social inequality

  • Founding of the "Secretaria de Educacion Publica" (SEP)

  • Period: to

    Education in the XX century

  • Socialist Education

    Lazaro Cardenas encouraged an education focused on work and social justice
  • Period: to

    Expansion of the alphabatization

    Mainly focused on rural populations

  • Reform in the 3rd Article

    Basic education must be free and mandatory until Middle school

  • Educative Reform by Peñanieto

    Now teacher's evaluation was available

  • AMLO's reform in education

    Removal of mandatory evaluation, focusing on values and human rights

  • Online Education

    Found it's origin during the Covid-19 pandemic

  • Modern day

    Focusing on inclusion, digital education and new technologies