In March, 2016, the state of New Mexico established a Remediation Task Force to examine remediation reform efforts across the state's higher education institutions. On March 11, the Task Force met for the "New Mexico Corequisite Remediation at Scale Policy Institute" in order to learn about the results of the latest national reform…

To what extent do Spanish-speaking English learner students develop English proficiency and grade-level readiness in English language arts and math from early elementary school to upper elementary school? Is there a relationship between proficiency in a student's primary home language, Spanish, and the amount of time needed to attain fluency in…

Thousands of American's enter postsecondary institutions every year and many are under prepared for college-level work. Subsequently, students enroll in or are placed in remedial courses in preparation for the rigor of college level classes. Numerous studies have looked at the impact of developmental course work on student outcomes, but few focus…

In this program profile, we describe the stretch/studio program recently implemented at the University of New Mexico. This program responds both to an institutional move away from remediation and to the large number of linguistically and racially diverse students at our institution. In this profile, we describe the new program's curriculum, which…

Annually, ACT provides a snapshot of the college and career readiness of ACT-tested high school graduates. This report is offered as a service to inform policymakers and practitioners about selected indicators of effectiveness and how that translates into readiness. It is designed to stimulate discussion, inquiry, and action. This report is…

Writing program administrators need to be as concerned about sustaining the cultural ecologies of our communities as we are about the material economies of our institutions--we need to attend to the diverse linguistic and rhetorical ecologies within which twenty-first century student writers are exercising agency. In order to respond productively,…

Research by Achieve, ACT, and others suggests that for high school graduates to be prepared for success in a wide range of postsecondary settings, they need to take four years of challenging mathematics--covering Advanced Algebra; Geometry; and data, probability, and statistics content--and four years of rigorous English aligned with college- and…

In the fall of 2009, the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) initiated a series of research programs designed to support the high school reform program, "Excellence for All," based on more than 20 years of research on the school reform programs of the countries with the most successful education programs worldwide. A…

Address presented at the 1969 Seminar in Albuquerque, New Mexico of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), an affiliate of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). (DS)

Address presented at the 1969 Seminar in Albuquerque, New Mexico of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), an affiliate of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). (DS)

Address presented at the 1969 Seminar in Albuquerque, New Mexico of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), an affiliate of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). (DS)

Address presented at the 1969 Seminar in Albuquerque, New Mexico of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), an affiliate of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). (DS)

Address presented at the 1969 Seminar in Albuquerque, New Mexico of the Association of Departments of English (ADE), an affiliate of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). (DS)

NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF THE SCHOOLS USING THE "MIAMI LINGUISTIC READERS" SERIES AND THE NAMES OF TEACHER REPRESENTATIVES AND COORDINATORS FOR EACH GROUP IN THE OUT-OF-STATE FIELD TRIAL (1964-65) ARE LISTED. REPRESENTATIVES WERE FROM ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, PUERTO RICO, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, AND TEXAS.

This journal contains the following articles pertaining to English instruction in rural schools: (1) "Different, To Be Sure" (Nathan James Weate) compares rural and urban students and finds rural students to have strong family cohesiveness, strong moral values, and diversified interests; (2) "An Elevating Experience" (Dorothy Trusock) describes a…