[PDF] Educational Reform In New Mexico eBook

Author : David L. Bachelor
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN :

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Providing quality education for all children is a challenge in multicultural societies such as the United States. Historically, individual educators and theorists have proposed a variety of approaches to educating children whose native language is not English. In the 1930s Loyd Tireman organized two experiments in cross-cultural education in New Mexico. These experiments were remarkably successful and anticipated contemporary trends, yet they remained unacknowledged and, until now, unstudied. Bachelor makes Tireman's insights available to modern teachers.Tireman saw the necessity of tailoring education to the child rather than fitting the child into a standardized curriculum. His demonstration school at San Jos near Albuquerque reversed low reading comprehension scores and became an important resource for rural teachers. The school at Namb became a center of village life as parents were drawn into efforts to make the schoolroom relevant to children's lives.Bachelor offers a balanced assessment of Tireman's efforts and considers his career in relation to the nature of educational reform.

Author : John B. Mondragón
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780826336552

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The structure, politics, and financing of education in New Mexico today.

Author : David Scott
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1787350762

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Over the last three decades, a significant amount of research has sought to relate educational institutions, policies, practices and reforms to social structures and agencies. A number of models have been developed that have become the basis for attempting to understand the complex relation between education and society. At the same time, national and international bodies tasked with improving educational performances seem to be writing in a void, in that there is no rigorous theory guiding their work, and their documents exhibit few references to groups, institutions and forces that can impede or promote their programmes and projects. As a result, the recommendations these bodies provide to their clients display little to no comprehension of how and under what conditions the recommendations can be put into effect. The Education System in Mexico directly addresses this problem. By combining abstract insights with the practicalities of educational reforms, policies, practices and their social antecedents, it offers a long overdue reflection of the history, effects and significance of the Mexican educational system, as well as presenting a more cogent understanding of the relationship between educational institutions and social forces in Mexico and around the world.