This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include Patricia D'Andrea, Joe Pompeo, Anthony G. Lozano, Alfred P. Wilson, Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, Hal Goldstein, Edward F. Moon, Beverly R. Grady, Executive Educator, and Pascal D. Forgione.
(1978). Uranium on the Checkerboard: Crisis at Crownpoint, American Indian Journal. Some 22 companies are currently exploring for uranium in the Crownpoint, New Mexico area. Due to complicated patterns of land and mineral ownership on the Navajo Reservation, the mining companies do not feel obligated to communicate, and the Navajo are, consequently, worried about their social and physical environment. [More] Descriptors: American Indians, Communication (Thought Transfer), Environmental Influences, Industry
(1981). Here's a Four-day Week That Works, American School Board Journal. By lengthening school days and moving to a four-day school week, the Cimarron (New Mexico) School District not only saved energy and transportation costs but also won teacher, student, and parent approval and saw student scores rise on national standardized tests. [More] Descriptors: Costs, Elementary Secondary Education, Energy, Extended School Day
(1979). Punto de Vista–The Significance of a Well, La Confluencia. The article discusses community action in the Mora Valley, as the Mora Land and Water Protective Association decides whether–and how–to fight an intrusion into traditional life in the valley by the Mora Research Center (a tree farm operated by New Mexico State University). [More] Descriptors: Community Action, Community Attitudes, Conservation (Environment), Economic Change
(1978). How Many Students Will Drop Out and Why?, North Central Association Quarterly. Describes studies of dropout rates in Arizona and New Mexico, considering sex, grade level, reason for withdrawing, student enrollment, school location, ethnicity, and school's membership in the North Central Association. Principal reasons for student withdrawals in both states were nonattendance, lack of interest, and disciplinary difficulties. [More] Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts, Longitudinal Studies, School Holding Power
(1980). Tracing the Spanish Language/Determinando el Origen del Idioma Espanol, AGENDA. Discusses the history of the Spanish language in America and notes the influence of Caribbean languages, Nahuatl, and English on Spanish. Describes the archaisms in lexicon, phonology, and grammar of the Spanish of New Mexico and Colorado. Discusses Spanish language maintenance in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the United States. [More] Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Language Maintenance
(1979). The Importance of Selected Categories of Employee Benefits to Public School Teachers, Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector. The authors examined the differences existing in selected categories of fringe benefits among 991 teachers from varied settings in New Mexico. Teacher desires were found indifferent with regard to their tenure status, sex, level of teaching, or school district size, in at least one of the four subhypotheses tested. [More] Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Fringe Benefits
(1979). Navajos and National Nuclear Policy, Southwest Economy & Society. Describes the history of nuclear development in New Mexico, notes the cumulative detrimental effect on the Navajo Nation, and emphasizes federal inaction regarding health and safety standards and regulation in the nuclear power industry. Journal availability: see RC 503 522. [More] Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Energy
(1981). Educational Policy Making and Women: A Look at a Region, High School Journal. A 1979 reputational survey, duplicating a 1977 study, sought to identify the most influential educational decision makers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Both studies found that a top policy maker is likely to be a white male noneducator from certain policy-making or policy-impacting institutions. [More] Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Geographic Regions, Individual Characteristics
(1980). Early Childhood Policy-Making: Inputs, Processes, and Legislative Outputs, Education and Urban Society. Reports on rationales that states have used to support recent early childhood education (ECE) initiatives and describes how reform policies were made in 1971-73 in West Virginia, California, Georgia, New Mexico, and Ohio. Outlines background and initiation of reform, building of support for ECE, opposition, and resulting legislation. [More] Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Early Childhood Education, Educational Change
(1979). Occupational and Environmental Health Problems along the U.S.-Mexico Border, Southwest Economy & Society. Comments on the health of migrant farmworkers in the U.S. and the Border Industrialization ("twin plants") Program with a brief description of the unique U.S.-Mexico border region, emphasizing the status of air pollution, housing, nutrition, and health care. Available from Southwest Economy & Society, Box 4482, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 ($12). [More] Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Braceros, Environment, Health
(1994). The Collaborative Career Adjustment Project (CCAP): A Model to Recruit and Retain Speech-Language Pathologists in Rural Communities, Rural Special Education Quarterly. Describes the Collaborative Career Adjustment Project, a program that allows licensed teachers in rural New Mexico to continue teaching while taking weekend, summer, or distance education courses to obtain a master's degree in speech-language pathology. Includes recommendations for the recruitment and retention of rural students in communication disorders training programs. Descriptors: Career Change, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
(1980). A Social Work Teaching-Learning Center, Journal of Education for Social Work. A social work teaching-learning center developed to provide more quality MSW-supervised field placements for New Mexico State University undergraduate social work students is described. The center contained two community social service agency components, an information and referral resource center, and a volunteer placement bureau. [More] Descriptors: Community Information Services, Field Instruction, Higher Education, Information Centers
(1980). 15 Things to Remember When Evaluating Teachers. Distills the guidelines contained in a guide for New Mexico school administrators to use in making contract-related decisions involving teachers. The guide was compiled by a group comprising teachers, school officials, and university representatives. The guide is not official policy. Descriptors: Administration, Administrators, Contracts, Elementary Secondary Education
(1997). Las Maestras: Pioneers in Education, La Herencia del Norte: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future. Highlights from interviews with three Hispanic women who taught rural children in New Mexico over 60 years ago notes the recurring motifs of poverty, supportive families, obstructive political structures, social discrimination, and community vitality and support. Investigates how these women were able to cross the boundary that separated culturally proscribed women's space from the public domain. Descriptors: Educational History, Females, Interviews, Mexican American Education
(1979). Serna v. Portales: The Plight of Bilingual Education Four Years Later, Journal of Ethnic Studies. A class action suit brought against a New Mexico school district claiming discrimination against Mexican Americans is reviewed. Accounts of interviews and opinions presented by the district superintendent and other educators and researchers regarding the lack of progress toward improving opportunities for Chicanos through court ordered programs are presented. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education