Are indigenous schools promoting learning among indigenous children in Mexico?

This dissertation aimed at studying if the achievement gap between indigenous children attending rural and indigenous schools could be explained by differences in school resources. Results show that indigenous children attending sixth grade of primary consistently achieve higher test scores in rural schools compared to their peers in indigenous schools. Furthermore, school resources were not able to explain the achievement gap between children in indigenous and rural schools. In fact, resources have only a moderate relation to achievement, explaining a small portion of variance in student test scores. In spite of this, teacher quality showed to be consistently related to student achievement, with stronger relationships with the achievement of children in indigenous schools.