The 2009 New Mexico AYP reports were released yesterday. Secretary Garcia tried to provide a balanced way of looking at the information, but of course most of the local news outlets took the usual "Schools Fail to Make the Grade" approach. It's all very frustrating for those who work in the schools--tests that test (or even mis-test) only a tiny portion of what really matters, entire schools being labeled "failures" based on a fraction of what goes on in the school, "interventions" that no one really believes make a difference being forced on schools and teachers and students, and words like "rigor" and "data" being tossed around as if the words themselves have some kind of magical power. It's hard to believe this mess is what some people call "reform."
In New Mexico
- New Mexico Council of Teachers of English
- New Mexico State University Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- NM Language Arts Content Standards and Benchmarks
- Public Ed. Dept. Professional Licensure Unit
- Teach New Mexico (includes information on 3-tiered licensure and dossiers)
- Teaching Jobs in New Mexico
- Univ. of New Mexico Dept. of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
- Univ. of New Mexico Secondary Education Program
Beyond New Mexico
Writing Project Sites
Research
- 21st Century Literacies: What are they and why are they important?
- The Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners
- Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High School
- Guidelines for Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well
- The Effect of Grammar Instruction on Student Writing
- What Research Says about Writing
- What We Know About Adolescent Literacy
- The National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement
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