No state can afford to lose high-quality, educated workers, the key ingredient for a thriving economy.
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Mississippi’s gains may hold lessons for New Mexico
How does a state climb off the bottom rung in measures of child well-being? Can New Mexico take a cue and move up a few notches itself, by next year?
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Success by degrees
Adult education can be a path to generational change. But in New Mexico, where it is estimated that a third of the adult population could benefit, only about 3 percent are served.
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30 Million Words
Pensacola, Fla., became one of the country’s first cities to dub itself an “Early Learning City.” With leadership from the business community, it linked up with the University of Chicago’s Thirty Million Words project to educate new parents on how to build their child’s brain — a project that could hold lessons for New Mexico.
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A border town without playgrounds
Anthony presents some of the highest risks to infants and young children in a state that is already at rock bottom of the national barrel on child well-being. By the state health department’s reckoning, it’s the third-worst place in New Mexico to be a child.
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Land commissioner: Most candidates decline to make their case
We asked the five land commissioner candidates how they would steward our public trust lands and use their office to improve conditions for New Mexico’s children. Two responded.
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Growing a governor
We asked the four gubernatorial candidates about their childhoods, to understand how their formative years shaped their thinking about what we regard as the most critical issue confronting New Mexico.
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Searchlight honored for series on New Mexico’s children
New Mexico Voices for Children awards ‘Raising New Mexico’ project.
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A conversation about treatment foster care
Ed Williams speaks with Radio Cafe’s Mary-Charlotte Domandi about his investigation into NM’s treatment foster care system.
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Chalk, books and metal detectors: A conversation about the ‘prisonization’ of schools
UNM Law Professor Maryam Ahranjani proposes a sensible national response to the Parkland, Fla., mass shooting.
