I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
New Mexico’s students might have improved their math, science and reading skills over half a dozen years, but state officials announced yesterday that three-fourths of the state’s schools failed to meet this year’s goal for student improvement, according to the Associated Press.
Here’s a key fact from the AP story:
Public Education Secretary Susanna Murphy released the latest testing information on Monday that showed 644 schools — or 78 percent — didn’t reach state-established improvement goals this year. That’s up from 560 schools, or 68 percent, in 2009.
The statewide stats translated into some striking local numbers.
In Santa Fe, three of the city’s 27 schools met this year’s goal for student improvement, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Only 17 of Albuquerque’s schools met the goal, reported the Albuquerque Journal.
Local and state education officials made clear Monday that they thought the annual measure of student improvement doesn’t capture how individual students and schools are progressing, or the complexity of delivering education in the 21st century.
Some schools barely missed the goal. And that highlighted another fact of the yearly assessment. One or two students who fail to show enough progress can make the difference between a school meeting its goal or not, officials said.
Here’s a presentation from yesterday’s announcement of statewide results made by the state’s new education secretary, Susanna Murphy.
