This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include Jeff Easton, Rao Sanjiv, Geoff Camphire, New Mexico Commission on Higher Education., College Board, Sebastian Wren, Christiane Brems, Tara A. Butler, Jill Slack, and Mary Neuman.
(2002). Countdown to Systems Collapse, Business Officer. Describes how the University of New Mexico Albuquerque developed a strategic business plan for renewing its utility systems when faced with the imminent collapse of its entire energy infrastructure and a $75-100 million price tag for upgrades. Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Electrical Systems, Energy Management, Utilities
(2006). Creating an Inclusive Early Childhood Professional Development System in New Mexico, USA, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. Creating a state comprehensive professional development system for the preparation of early childhood personnel in the USA requires a development framework that is inclusive and responsive to diversity. Over the past few years, states from around the country have begun to embark on journeys towards the development of such a system. The purpose of this article is to share New Mexico's experience and lessons learned from its work in the creation of a professional development system in early childhood that is culturally and linguistically responsive. [More] Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Young Children, Faculty Development, Professional Development
(2015). PSAT/NMSQT[R] 2014-2015 College-Bound High School Sophomores. Summary Report. New Mexico. In the fall of 2014, students took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) to help determine their level of readiness for college. The PSAT/NMSQT 2014 State Summary Reports summarize the characteristics, scores and educational plans of the Class of 2016 and Class of 2017. [More] Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High School Students, Critical Reading, Reading Achievement
(2005). Ahead of Their Class, Education Week. This article discusses a pilot project in New Mexico that gives kindergartners–and some 1st graders–20 extra days before the school year begins to learn the ropes and jump into their lessons. The project is called Kindergarten-Plus, the concept is the brainchild of former American Federation of Teachers President Sandra Feldman. According to Feldman, the program could make a big difference in the lives of the poorest children. It will accelerate their early education, socialization, and well-being, and can help make sure that they don't enter 1st grade with as large a disadvantage. This article discusses the impact brought about by the program in New Mexico. [More] Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Extended School Year
(2009). State Education Activities to Support Mission Growth. NGA Center for Best Practices. Issue Brief, National Governors Association. The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) leads a Mission Growth Working Group, which consists of states that are significantly impacted by the growth of military bases. The group includes state representatives appointed by the governors of Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia. The Working Group's goal is to enhance the relationship between states, military communities, and military bases, with a particular focus on addressing growth issues outside the military fence line. The Working Group has identified education as one of the top challenges mission growth states face. Recognizing that there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution to meet the education needs of a growing state, the Working Group offers recommendations to respond to both the needs of incoming military dependent children, as well as long term workforce needs of a base: (1) Establish collaborative approaches that coordinate educational responses and represent diverse stakeholders; (2) Adjust educational programs to allow for flexibility; (3) Focus on teacher recruitment, retraining, and retention strategies; (4) Establish educational programs that support military dependent students and prepare future workforce; and (5) Identify and Secure Funding. Member listing of Mission Growth Working Group is appended. (Contains 38 endnotes and 1 table.) [Additional writing and research support was provided by Sue Gander and Ryan Reyna.] [More] Descriptors: Armed Forces, Facilities, Educational Demand, Population Growth
(2007). Ethical Disparities: Challenges Encountered by Multidisciplinary Providers in Fulfilling Ethical Standards in the Care of Rural and Minority People, Journal of Rural Health. Context: Health care disparities are well documented for people living in rural areas and for people who are members of ethnic minorities. Purpose: Our goal was to determine whether providers report greater difficulty in providing care for rural than urban residents and for ethnic minorities than patients/clients in general in 4 practice areas of ethical relevance: attaining treatment adherence, assuring confidentiality, establishing therapeutic alliance, and engaging in informed consent processes. Methods: We received survey responses from 1,558 multidisciplinary medical and behavioral providers across rural and non-rural areas of New Mexico and Alaska in 2004 to assess a wide range of issues in providing health care. Findings: Providers reported some difficulties in fulfilling various ethical practices for all types of patients, but not more difficulty when caring for minority compared to nonminority patients/clients. However, they do report more frequent additional problems related to the practice issues of treatment adherence, therapeutic alliance, informed consent, and confidentiality with minority patients than others. Difficulties and more frequent additional problems are greater for providers in rural than in non-rural areas. Results generalize across both Alaska and New Mexico with few differences. Conclusions: We obtained evidence for disparity in care for patients/clients who were minority group members, and clear evidence of disparity for people residing in rural compared to non-rural areas of 2 states with large rural areas. [More] Descriptors: Confidentiality, Patients, Rural Areas, Ethics
(2009). Evaluating Quality in Educational Spaces: OECD/CELE Pilot Project, CELE Exchange. CELE's International Pilot Project on Evaluating Quality in Educational Spaces aims to assist education authorities, schools and others to maximise the use of and investment in learning environments. This article provides an update on the pilot project, which is currently being implemented in Brazil, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal and the United Kingdom. [More] Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, School Space
(2002). Time To Teach, American School Board Journal. Describes innovative New Mexico basic-skills tutoring program (The Scholars Club) that provides classroom teachers extra time to teach elementary students who need help. Program is funded solely from corporate gifts, foundation grants, and individual donations. Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Innovation, Teacher Student Relationship, Time Factors (Learning)
(2015). PSAT/NMSQT[R] 2014-2015 College-Bound High School Juniors. Summary Report. New Mexico. In the fall of 2014, students took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) to help determine their level of readiness for college. The PSAT/NMSQT 2014 State Summary Reports summarize the characteristics, scores and educational plans of the Class of 2016 and Class of 2017. [More] Descriptors: High School Students, College Entrance Examinations, Critical Reading, Reading Achievement
(2002). Charter Districts, School Administrator. Interviews with superintendents of eight charter-school districts in four states: California, Florida, Georgia, and New Mexico. Describes advantages and disadvantages. Includes a list (with website addresses) of all current charter-school districts. Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts
(2005). SEDL Letter, Volume XVII, Number 1, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL). This issue of "SEDL Letter" discusses a variety of subjects, including how to improve instruction for adolescent readers and struggling readers, using literacy coaching as an approach for ongoing professional development, and how to motivate students to read. Also, a visit to Bernalillo, New Mexico, is described to acknowledge how literacy coaches have played a role in helping students at Algodones Elementary School and Bernalillo Middle School become better readers. Another article looks at the effects of Reading First in the SEDL region of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Finally, how SEDL is working with teachers in Georgia to help them turn their large numbers of Spanish-speaking students into English-language readers is described. [More] Descriptors: Adolescents, Reading Motivation, Literacy, Motivation Techniques
(2003). The Condition of Higher Education in New Mexico, 2002. This annual report describes the recent history of higher education in New Mexico, but it is also intended to provide information useful in preparing for the expanded roles education must play if it is to meet the needs of the state in the coming years. The report begins with summary statements about students and their progress, tuition and financial aid, and public funding of higher education in New Mexico. In 2001, nearly 106,000 students were enrolled in New Mexico's public colleges and universities. Most (54%) were studying on-campus, with the remainder taking courses at off-campus sites. Some 54% of on-campus students are enrolled in community colleges, but since many of these are part-time students, they represent only 44% of the full-time equivalent enrollment. Eighty-seven percent of these enrolled students were New Mexico residents. In the 2000-2001 academic year, New Mexico's public colleges and universities awarded a slightly lower number of degrees (1%) than in 1999-2000; there were 5,405 bachelor's degrees awarded. On average, resident undergraduate students at the states three research universities paid nearly $3,100 in tuition and fees per academic year, and tuition at the three comprehensive universities averaged about $2,232. All six universities raised tuition in the academic year. Students received nearly $310 million in student financial assistance, and of this sum, more than $273 million was awarded from public funding sources. Instructional programs at New Mexico's public postsecondary institutions continue to receive significant support from state funds, as detailed. Data tables contain further detail on each of these areas. (Contains 2 figures and 47 tables.) [More] Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Educational Finance, Educational Trends, Enrollment
(2010). Corazon a Corazon: Examining the Philanthropic Motivations, Priorities, and Relational Connectedness of Mexican American, Spanish American and Other Latino/Hispano University Alumni/Alumnae to a Hispanic Serving Institution, ProQuest LLC. Public higher education institutions rely on state funding for a significant percentage of operational costs. In recent years, state contributions to higher education have been substantially reduced due to budget deficits at the state and federal levels. Such budget deficits have resulted in decreased funding for higher education. Universities with limited traditional giving are mostly affected by these budget cuts. Many of the institutions with a limited tradition of giving are Hispanic Serving Institutions and several of the alumni from Hispanic Serving Institutions are Hispanic. According to Santiago (2007), "in 2003-04, almost half of Latino undergraduate students were concentrated in the 6% of institutions of higher education in the United States identified as Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI)" (p. 3). Thus, understanding the philanthropic giving priorities, motivations, and relational connectedness to the institution of Hispanic alumni is critical to HSIs that serve this population. The sample for this study involved alumni of Mexican and Spanish origin in New Mexico. This study analyzed the results of a survey distributed to 3,200 Hispanic university alumni from a Hispanic Serving Institution in New Mexico. The survey data collected through SurveyMonkey[TM] provided the basis for descriptive analysis. This study provided new and unique contributions to inform the knowledge of philanthropic motivations of Mexican American and Spanish American university alumni/alumnae. Specifically, this research explored the familial and friendship ties (relational connectedness) to the university as an indicator of Mexican American and Spanish American alumni financial support. The study also outlined specific giving priorities and philanthropic motivations of Mexican American and Spanish American alumni. Such knowledge provided the foundation to inform universities of the opportunities and challenges available in approaching Hispanic alumni for private gifts to their alma mater. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: www.proquest.com/en-US/products/disserta… [More] Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Spanish Culture, Mexican Americans
(2002). The Big Buy, American School Board Journal. Describes the advantages and disadvantages of group purchasing. Forty-seven states have laws allowing group purchasing. Includes examples of group purchasing arrangements in Washington, California, New Mexico, and Kentucky. Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizations (Groups), Purchasing
(2005). The Future is Green: Tribal College Saving Water, Electricity–and Money, Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education. Tribal colleges and universities around the country are harnessing natural sources of energy on their campuses. Renewable energy and sustainable building design have many advantages–they save money and provide healthier learning and working environments while allowing people to live in greater harmony with the earth. This article discusses several tribal colleges and universities that are at the forefront of the green campus movement. One of these, the new campus of Turtle Mountain Community College (TMCC, Belcourt, North Dakota), will become the first tribal college campus–and apparently the first campus anywhere–to become completely powered by renewable energy when it erects and turns on its wind turbine. The utility-scale turbine will produce 660 kilowatts, powering the campus and providing excess electricity that the college can sell to the local utility company. The new campus is a 145,000-square-foot, two-story building, which is designed around the concept of the Four Directions and the Seven Teachings of the Ojibwe. It also utilizes geothermal energy from 560 wells, 160 feet deep under the parking lot. The following colleges that exemplify the green campus movement are also discussed: (1) The Institute of American Indian Arts; (Santa Fe, New Mexico); (2) Salish Kootenai College (Pablo, Montano); (3) Sitting Bull College (Fort Yates, North Dakota); (4) Sisseton Wahpeton College (Sisseton, South Dakota); (5) Blackfeet Community College (Browning, Montana); (6) Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (Albuquerque, New Mexico); and (7) Crownpoint Institute of Technology (Crownpoint, New Mexico). [More] Descriptors: Ecology, Tribally Controlled Education, Community Colleges, Energy Conservation