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    Fernando Reimers & Sergio Cárdenas

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Fernando Reimers (United States)

Ford Foundation Professor of International Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he directs the International Education Policy Programme and the Office of Global Education. His research focuses on the impact of education policy on the quality and relevance of education, the improvement of educational opportunities for low-income children and democratic citizenship education. E-mail: Fernando_Reimers@harvard.edu

Sergio Cárdenas (Mexico)

Doctoral student at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. A lawyer by training, he holds a master degree in administration and public policy from the Center for Economics Research and Teaching in Mexico City. He has worked for the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education and his current research focuses on the analysis of educational policies that may contribute to the reproduction of social inequalities. E-mail: cardense@gse.harvard.edu

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Reimers, F., Cárdenas, S. Who benefits from school-based management in Mexico?. Prospects 37, 37–56 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-007-9015-0

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