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.
The presidents of Central New Mexico Community College and the University of New Mexico have joined with Albuquerque Public Schools Superintendent Winston Brooks in creating what the educators call a path to a "seamless" public education.
The…
School principals that don’t have a hazing and bully policy at their school should get one. Pronto.
That’s the word from the state Public Education Department in response to allegations that Las Vegas Robertson High School football players…
University of New Mexico law professor Margaret Montoya, one of UNM’s most distinguished faculty members, addressed the teachers at Atrisco Heritage Academy recently. It was a pep talk from a woman who wants teachers to…
Declining readership is not the only reason the stench of death is wafting through some metropolitan newspapers. Seems that journalists are not the only people in newspapers who have to adjust to the world of new media.
According to
ALBUQUERQUE — Writing assignments are to most ninth-graders what root canals are to you and me. Necessary evils.
Let the root canals begin, I thought when I asked my ninth-grade media literacy students to write in their journals every day.…
New Mexico’s ACORN voter registration drive has netted more than 65,000 new voter applications already this year, and its field director wonders how many more they could have registered had it been supplied with more official state applications.
Mouath Baesho,…
Reason No. 2 on documentarian Michael Moore’s list of how the Dems can blow this election is: "Pick a running mate who is a conservative white guy or a general or a Republican."
No, it’s not a ringing endorsement for…
No sooner had the New Mexico Independent published a commentary I wrote Tuesday about the high school kids I teach at Atrisco Heritage Academy not being exposed to news, when I got an alert from the Pew Research Center for…
ALBUQUERQUE — Day one as a teacher and I stood there in Room 414 looking at 30 kids in my first period class staring back at me. I wondered if they wanted me to say something funny or meaningful? Maybe…
We all know the ugly news that most New Mexico public schools are not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress as required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Now for some positive news out of the state’s largest school…
New Mexico State University officials are playing hard ball with two former professors who have been fighting their dismissal from the university since March. According to the Las Cruces Sun-News, the professors, John Moraros and Yelena Bird, received letters last…
It’s back to school for most the 90,000 Albuquerque Public Schools students today, and it has been a little more challenging for the district to open doors at some schools this year.
Severe flooding in at least two schools,…
Like most Albuquerque Public Schools students, Amanda Otero will be back in school today. But unlike most students this ninth grader said she’s been counting down the days waiting for her school to start.
She’s one of about 500 freshmen…
The New Mexico Public Education Department has adopted a statewide rule about when a student’s final course grade can be changed, saying the new rule "should result in the changing of grades only when warranted and should lead to increased…
ALBUQUERQUE — None of the interior or exterior doors could be locked from the inside at San Ildefonso Day School near Santa Fe. As a result, staff needed to go outside to lock doors with keys, exposing staff and students…
The latest achievement gap results announced by the state Public Education Department were both positive and negative.
The achievement gap, of course, refers to the difference between the academic performance of the majority of students compared with racial, ethnic…
ALBUQUERQUE — The state released its Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) report today, and as in years past, it paints a bleak picture of public education in New Mexico.
Only 23 of Albuquerque Public Schools’ 157 schools made AYP this…
For anyone who has ever been peeved enough at his or her cell phone company to the point of wanting out of the contract, only to find out it would cost you a a small fortune to part ways, this…
The Las Cruces Sun-News reports that the state’s last horseracing track and casino could be headed to southern New Mexico to be built in Lordsburg. A group of developers plans to seek permission from the state to construct a quarter…
ALBUQUERQUE — Former Lt. Gov. Roberto Mondragon and educator Georgia Roybal have worked 17 years to get a textbook of New Mexico history published and distributed in schools statewide. That dream comes a step closer to reality this fall. …
