Michelle bachelet biography ingles performance

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In , high-school students in Chile took to the streets to protest the country’s education system, sparking President Michelle Bachelet’s first major crisis. Known as the Penguin Revolution (a term that refers to the students’ white and black uniforms), the protests accomplished what decades of public debate had failed to do: force a political agreement to reform institutional practices in place since the s. The student movement—perhaps the most successful in the country’s history—responded to widespread complaints that despite public education funding, the system’s guiding principles perpetuate socioeconomic differences.

As a result, needed change has come to Chilean education. But there is still much work to be done.

In practice, Chilean schools are segregated by socioeconomic levels. The Education Ministry classifies them into five groups using a methodology that combines upplysning about household income, parents’ educational level and characteristics of

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