An Analysis of Education Policies in Mexico from the Perspective of Public Policies and Governance

The aim of this paper is to introduce the experience of education policies reforms in Mexico from a perspective of policy research, contributing useful findings for other Latin American cases. The dynamics of change and continuity of policies are shown to favor coverage. Also, the advantage of this perspective for the improvement of governments' intervention capacity and the solution of unresolved problems in policy agendas is made clear. The paper concludes that the change toward quality and equity is part of two types of reforms and, therefore, of two types of agendas: a political agenda and a policies agenda.