Supporting sunshine laws
I want the citizens of this county to know that I admit my mistake – a violation of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act – and I apologize.
I want the citizens of this county to know that I admit my mistake – a violation of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act – and I apologize.
If we value certain important outcomes for our students, such as the ability to understand essential concepts, work in groups, think critically and solve problems, then we should measure those abilities – both in student learning and in teaching.
Kids are, by definition, not adults, and they’re not interested in grown-ups’ measures of quality. And yet, the N.M. Public Education Department wants teachers’ jobs to be based on tests taken by kids for whom there is no personal consequence. What will it mean for them when the weight of our careers rests in their little hands?
With its proposed new teacher evaluation rules, the Public Education Department is ignoring the real needs of students and the concerns of educators.
Two situations that have recently made headlines show how sought-after teachers’ personal information is. Teachers, like the students they work so hard to educate, are caught in the middle of a war.
There are many paths to reform, but the path must be taken. Our higher education system is in need of more than just cosmetic reforms.
The American Federation of Teachers and Progressive Kick, a federal Super PAC based in California, are trying to help Larry P. Martinez unseat N.M. Senate Finance Committee Chairman John Arthur Smith in next week’s Democratic primary.
We must ensure that our children have access to the resources they need to help them fulfill their unique potential. This includes access to an affordable college education.
To the graduates of 2012, you may be turned off by a system where nothing important gets done and money talks with a forked tongue. Here are my top seven tips on how to be all you can be while getting our community, our state and our country off the dime and back on track.
If the educational leaders in New Mexico really want kids to graduate they should aim the incentives on graduation. How about a graduation lottery?
House District 46 candidates David Coss and Carl Trujillo on jobs and education, and a list of endorsements in the race.
From Illinois to Hawaii to New York and across the nation, local control of school policy is being hijacked by ALEC’s “accountability” model. It’s happening here, too.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Hector Balderas was a college dropout working on an assembly line at 21. Like so many others who find their way out of poverty, his story is filled with people who challenged him and gave him hope for a better life.
Trying to improve education is quite slippery since it depends on what you mean by success when you are looking to find it in the schools. It is very different for political leaders than for citizens.
Both sides of the debate seem to wish for more highly qualified teachers to be placed in the most difficult teaching positions.