This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include Antonio Esquibel, Thomas Heinrich, Charles Boelen, Christopher Brown, Rena F. Subotnik, Robert Ortiz, Catalina Palting, Teddy D. Warner, M. Louise Cavatta, and Leslie D. Hall.
(1999). Back from the Brink of Extinction, Black Issues in Higher Education. New Mexico's Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development has survived major loss of federal funding and subsequent retrenchment, watched enrollment rise, and begun construction of a new campus. The institute is dedicated to study, creative application, preservation, and care of Indian arts and culture, and houses the largest art collection under Native Americans' care. Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Art
(1993). New Mexico Enhanced ACT and SAT Results. School Year 1991-1992. Students in New Mexico may take either the American College Test Assessment (ACT) or the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), although New Mexico students usually take the ACT. Results from both examinations are presented in this report, based on seniors expected to graduate. Overall, New Mexico and national composite scores have remained steady on the ACT (Enhanced ACT) for the past 3 years, although there has been a slight decline in English scores. New Mexico scores remained slightly below the national average, although scores improved for students enrolled in a core curriculum. Males scored higher in mathematics while females scored higher in English. Minority groups in New Mexico generally scored higher than their national counterparts. Far fewer New Mexico students took the SAT. Their verbal and mathematics scores remained above the national average, with an increase in verbal scores and a slight, and continuing decline, in mathematics scores. On the SAT, minority groups in New Mexico also scored higher than their national counterparts, and Mexican Americans and Native Americans substantially increased their scores. Four appendixes give scores by school district and detailed information about gender, mean SAT scores, and ethnic composition of SAT takers. (Contains nine tables, five figures, and five sources.) [More] Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations
(1999). Dine College Students Research Diabetes for Their People, Tribal College. Summarizes Dine College's (New Mexico) leading role in researching diabetes and other Navajo health problems, and its employment of students to help conduct research. States that because of an intimate understanding of their people, students can research topics that outside researchers would not or could not choose. Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Community Colleges, Diabetes
(1999). A Summer Journey: The 1999 College Horizons Program, Winds of Change. In 1999, College Horizons brought 50 American Indian high school students from 28 tribes to the Native American Preparatory School in Rowe, New Mexico, for a unique seminar. During the week-long summer seminar, college representatives presented intensive workshops and large-group sessions on the college application process, including essay writing, interviewing, financial aid, and dealing with racism. Descriptors: Admissions Counseling, American Indian Education, American Indians, College Admission
(1999). Improving the Social Responsiveness of Medical Schools: Proceedings of the 1998 Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates/World Health Organization Invitational Conference, Academic Medicine. Proceedings of the conference on improving the social responsiveness of medical schools include papers on the role of medical schools in relation to societal needs, the missions of medical schools (from North American, European, African, and Asian perspectives), measuring social responsiveness (perspective of the United Kingdom, standard-setting, case studies from New Mexico and Thailand), and the Canadian experience. Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Case Studies, College Role, Conference Proceedings
(1999). Talent Developed: Conversations with Masters in the Arts and Sciences. Jeff Bingaman: United States Senator, Journal for the Education of the Gifted. Presents an interview with Jeff Bingaman, senator from New Mexico, who has been instrumental in providing incentives to increase the number of low-income students eligible for Advanced Placement test fee waivers and has supported innovative projects in educational technology and institution of voluntary national tests. He has also encouraged efforts to hold education schools more accountable for performing poorly. Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
(1999). Early Literacy Activities of Fathers: Reading and Writing with Young Children, Young Children. Examined the literacy activities of 47 father/child pairs over a two-year period in New Mexico. Found a variety of reading and writing activities and concern among fathers relating to school preparedness and bonding opportunities. Devised five recommendations aimed specifically at fathers to develop early reading and writing skills in their children. Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Writing, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy
(1999). A Model for Involvement of Fathers in Literacy Development with Young At-Risk and Exceptional Children, Early Childhood Education Journal. Describes a model of father-child literacy activities, based on observed activities of 60 fathers involved in Project DADS in New Mexico. The model consists of four approaches to getting fathers involved: early social interaction, reading books, preliteracy activities, and school involvement. Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Fathers
(1999). Dome Schools, American School Board Journal. Back in 1988, Emmett, Idaho, built the first monolithic dome school. Now, school boards in Arizona, Missouri, Florida, Minnesota, and New Mexico are among those that have voted to build domed school buildings. A monolithic dome is a steel- reinforced, concrete structure with a smooth, round surface that is inspired by the shape of an egg. Descriptors: Architectural Character, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Secondary Education
(2005). Becoming a Good Doctor: Perceived Need for Ethics Training Focused on Practical and Professional Development Topics, Academic Psychiatry. Objective: Ethics training has become a core component of medical student and resident education. Curricula have been developed without the benefit of data regarding the views of physicians-in-training on the need for ethics instruction that focuses on practical issues and professional development topics. Methods: A written survey was sent to all medical students and PGY1-3 residents at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. The survey consisted of eight demographic questions and 124 content questions in 10 domains. Responses to a set of 24 items related to ethically important dilemmas, which may occur in the training period and subsequent professional practice, are reported. Items were each rated on a 9-point scale addressing the level of educational attention needed compared to the amount currently provided. Results: Survey respondents included 200 medical students (65% response) and 136 residents (58% response). Trainees, regardless of level of training or clinical discipline, perceived a need for more academic attention directed at practical ethical and professional dilemmas present during training and the practice of medicine. Women expressed a desire for more education directed at both training-based and practice-based ethical dilemmas when compared to men. A simple progression of interest in ethics topics related to level of medical training was not found. Residents in diverse clinical specialties differed in perceived ethics educational needs. Psychiatry residents reported a need for enhanced education directed toward training-stage ethics problems. Conclusions: This study documents the importance placed on ethics education directed at practical real-world dilemmas and ethically important professional developmental issues by physicians-in-training. Academic medicine may be better able to fulfill its responsibilities in teaching ethics and professionalism and in serving its trainees by paying greater attention to these topics in undergraduate and graduate medical curricula. [More] Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Educational Needs, Ethics
(1999). What Diverse, Rural Communities Need and Want from Their Teachers, Rural Educator. Two community meetings in a rural multicultural New Mexico school district examined community expectations of teachers. Awareness and sensitivity to cultural differences were identified as the most important qualities. Other qualities are presented in three sections: knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Commonly held values and beliefs of Native American and Hispanic communities are identified. Descriptors: American Indian Education, Communication Skills, Community Attitudes, Cultural Awareness
(1999). When Gangs Come to Town, American School Board Journal. Gang membership in large cities is declining but may be increasing in small towns. A student high-school teacher in Silver City, New Mexico, describes several academic, counseling, disciplinary, and extracurricular programs (including a support group for gang dropouts) to address students' and teachers' school-safety concerns. Descriptors: Counseling, Extracurricular Activities, High Schools, Intervention
(1999). The Four-Day School Week, School Administrator. In New Mexico, 18 out of 89 school districts are on the four-day school week. So are many rural Colorado, Oregon, and Colorado schools. Implemented as a fiscal last resort, this schedule has had unexpected educational benefits for districts. Attendance has improved and student achievement on standardized tests remains stable. Descriptors: Attendance, Educational Benefits, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Problems
(1974). A Review of Public Two-Year Institutions of Higher Education in New Mexico. This study was conducted to establish "The State of the Art" of public two-year colleges in New Mexico. Previous studies of two-year institutions in New Mexico are reviewed. A historical review of two-year colleges and a legislative history of junior colleges in New Mexico are presented. Although New Mexico does not have a coordinated state system of junior colleges, enrollment in two-year institutions has increased over 200 percent during the last 10 years. New Mexico now has nine branch community college campuses, which are governed by a parent four-year college, and only one junior college, which is controlled by a junior college board elected by the junior college district's voters. New Mexico also has one military institute, three technical/vocational institutes, and five private and six public four-year institutions. In general, two-year colleges in New Mexico have been relegated to the status of stepchild of other institutions. Because they add prestige to the communities in which they are located, branch colleges give the parent institutions additional political clout in the state legislature; this political reality must be considered in future attempts to establish junior college legislation. Another fact to be considered is that vocational/technical courses offered at the branch campuses do not generate FTE for funding purposes. [More] Descriptors: Colleges, Educational History, Educational Legislation, Educational Planning
(1999). Seeing a World in a Grain of Sand: Science Teaching in Multicultural Context, Science and Education. Describes the Imagining Nature Project at Deakin University in Australia, and the Native Eyes Project at the Institute of American Indian Art in New Mexico. Both projects entail the teaching of science and technology to non-science majors of highly diverse cultural origin. They also incorporate innovative strategies to make science and technology more credible and relevant to indigenous peoples. Descriptors: Art Education, Cultural Background, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries