Development: Today (12 October), Mexico's Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) teachers' union will stage a 24-hour national strike, complete with marches and road blocks, to protest against aspects of the federal government’s education reform. Significance: This is the first test of nerve for the new national education minister, Aurelio Nuño. The CNTE is protesting primarily against the introduction of continuous evaluation for teachers, which forms an integral part of the education reform pushed through two years ago by the federal government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto to raise low education standards in Mexico. The locus of…