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Learning experiences: Emma Jones
From an early age, Emma Jones became an advocate for herself while navigating Albuquerque Public Schools as a homeless student. Her experiences growing up led her to 13 years of community organizing to improve school engagement and identify problems in New Mexico’s education landscape. Jones, 32, is the lead organizer for Learning Alliance New Mexico, […]
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Learning experiences: Regis Pecos
Regis Pecos has served as both lieutenant governor and governor of Cochiti Pueblo and was a member of the tribal council for more than 30 years.
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Learning experiences: Betsy Cahill
Betsy Cahill knows the problems of teacher retention firsthand. She worked as a preschool teacher for more than 17 years before becoming an associate professor of early childhood education at New Mexico State University in 1994. A native of New Jersey, she attended Kent State University in Ohio and ended up remaining there afterward. She […]
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Learning experiences: Julia Bergen
It was just two days into the school year, and Julia Bergen already was dealing with two cases of student homelessness. Then she heard about an influx of Guatemalan migrant children just released from federal detention, who had unexpectedly shown up in a Santa Fe school. Bergen is executive director of Communities In Schools of […]
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Learning Experiences
For the start of the school year, Searchlight New Mexico is publishing interviews with four leading education activists. The conversations span the gamut from language immersion to teacher shortages, child trauma and what it takes to finally reform New Mexico’s schools. Because the crisis in education goes to the heart of practically every problem we […]
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High stakes: Guns in the home
In 2017, the most recent year for which data are available, 99 New Mexican youths between 10 and 24 took their own lives. It was the highest number in one year since the late 1990s. Roughly half were by firearm, making the state’s youth-suicide-by-firearm rate among the five highest in the country, according to the […]
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Progress report: Albuquerque neighborhood among many tricky for 2020 census in NM
ALBUQUERQUE – Over the last 40 years, downtown Albuquerque has become a checkerboard of residential, commercial and government properties – all occupying Census Tract 21. There are Old World families who have lived here for generations and immigrant families who come and go. And then there’s Maria Theresa Rodriguez-Ronces, a spry 82-year-old landlord who immigrated […]
