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"One essential reform is to make New Mexico’s public schools smaller. Decades of independent research have shown that smaller schools have significantly higher graduation rates and improve the academic performance of students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds. This should come as no surprise, since smaller schools provide more personalized educational environments, where students are known by teachers and by one another, and where it is much more difficult for students to fall through the cracks. (Smaller schools are also much safer, with far fewer violent incidents per capita.) Yet despite the research showing that high schools should be no larger than about 900 students, two-thirds of New Mexico’s ninth graders currently enter high schools with more than 1,000 students." -
FRED NATHAN, executive director of Think New Mexico |
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January 29, Sunday - 11 a.m.
UPDATE ON BUCKMAN DIRECT DIVERSION PROJECT - A Conversation with Mark Sardella, Executive Director of
Local Energy in Conversation, with KSFR Radio Host David Bacon... more »
Get Reel Film Festival
January 26, Thur. - 7 p.m.
If a Tree Falls - Moderated by Executive Director, New Energy Economy, Mariel Nanasi;
$10 suggested donation
CCA 1050 Old Pecos Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87501 ... more »
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