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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | February 2006 
Mexico to Launch National Reading Survey
 Associated Press
Mexico City - The Mexican government announced Wednesday it is launching a national survey to determine how much its citizens read, as part of efforts to improve literacy levels.
Mexico's undersecretary of education, Lorenzo Gomez-Morin Fuentes, told a news conference that the government wants to know how much citizens read, what kind of books they read and whether parents read to their children.
The government launched the survey this month by applying the same methods it uses for its national census to question more than 250,000 people, including children, in both rural and urban areas, Gomez-Morin said. Results are expected by July.
"At last we can have hard data on how much Mexicans read," Gomez-Morin said.
The project came about after Mexico scored poorly on an international evaluation of reading levels in 2000, ranking near the bottom of the list of countries, Gomez-Morin said.
Since then, the government has purchased a record 173 million books for its schools and built libraries and boosted training for teachers.
Gomez-Morin said part of the problems has been the Mexican government has focused on ensuring every child has access to a basic education and not concentrated enough on the quality of its schools.
The government hopes the survey will provide data on ways Mexico can boost reading levels, especially among its high school students, Gomez-Morin said. |
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