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    New Mexico Education in 2050
    New Mexico Education in 2050
    New Mexico Education in 2050
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    New Mexico Education in 2050

    By Veronica C. García and Fred Harris

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    New Mexico Education in 2050, an E-short edition from New Mexico 2050, addresses a fundamental issue impacting the future of New Mexico: education. Veronica C. García, a lifelong educator, an education policy expert, and a passionate education advocate, outlines the central concerns and illustrates why New Mexicans must improve and invest more generously in education outcomes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
    Release dateJul 1, 2015
    ISBN9780826356116
    New Mexico Education in 2050
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    Veronica C. García

    Veronica C. García, EdD, has been a New Mexico schoolteacher, principal, superintendent, and state cabinet secretary of public education. She has received numerous awards, including the National Governors’ Association Award for Excellence in State Government, New Mexico Superintendent of the Year, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Education from Hispanic magazine. She is presently executive director of New Mexico Voices for Children.

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      New Mexico Education in 2050 - Veronica C. García

      cover.jpghalftitletitle

      ISBN for this digital E-short: 978-0-8263-5611-6

      © 2015 by the University of New Mexico Press

      All rights reserved. Published 2015

      This E-short includes abridged content and chapter 2, New Mexico Education, from New Mexico 2050, edited by Fred Harris.

      Cover photograph by Lila Sanchez

      Designed by Lila Sanchez

      Contents

      New Mexico 2050?

      Hakim Bellamy

      Preface

      Fred Harris

      New Mexico Education in 2050

      Veronica C. García

      Epilogue

      Fred Harris

      Contributors

      Index

      New Mexico 2050?

      A Prefatory Poem

      Hakim Bellamy

      New Mexico has been called

      lots of things

      by the Upper 48.

      My favorite

      is recession proof.

      Like some sort of backhanded condiment,

      like vinegar, when I ordered chile,

      like drought, instead of desert,

      like climate change for dinner

      instead of rain for breakfast.

      But mean

      is not what they mean.

      When poor is the new normal,

      you can’t feel the economy flatline.

      Just like you couldn’t feel it

      when it was booming.

      Just like the bottom of the ocean

      unmoved by the waves.

      What they meant

      is irrelevant,

      even insignificant.

      Because we take everything

      as a compliment.

      Because at 2050,

      with the oldest state capital in the country,

      we look damn good for our age.

      Compared to their Dow Jones Average

      we are finally exceptional,

      breaking the curve

      one border at a time.

      36 years from here,

      New Mexico will still be exotic to others

      and enchanting to us.

      We’ll still be inventing

      new names to call ourselves.

      Still be creating new races

      every monsoon season of love.

      New Mexico will still be magic,

      Like a horizon-taut canvas

      making something out of nothing.

      Pulling a rabbit out of the mesa

      waiting a sign, with both ears

      to the sky.

      Nothing under its sleeve

      but sacred heart ink.

      Acequia Sangre underneath

      its adobe-flavored skin.

      Hungry for the snowpack

      to finally shed a tear.

      As the highways grow

      wider and western than the Rio.

      As the river banks

      collapse like a recession

      in vein.

      As the scales of justice

      elevate us out of poverty

      instead of shackling us to it.

      As the education system

      weights opportunity

      over place of worth.

      As the sites

      become more sacred,

      and the sacred

      becomes more scarce.

      New Mexico will endure,

      evolve and enchant,

      as it has always done.

      Under many different names . . .

      But what about

      the Nuevomexicanos?

      Preface

      What Can We Be? What Will We Be?

      Fred Harris

      The past is prologue. True. And so is the present. But in New Mexico, neither of these is necessarily destiny.1

      A local announcer once opened the great annual Montana Crow Indian Fair Rodeo with the words, Ladies and Gentlemen and all you white people, we have cowboys here tonight from all over the world—and many other places!

      Well, I’m not a cowboy exactly, not an Indian either, but I’ve been nearly all over the world, and many other places, and I’ve never found any place I like as much as New Mexico. That’s the truth.

      We’ve got our problems. Everybody knows that.

      And maybe people say that we’ve made our own bed. But we don’t have to lie in it. The problems we have here in this wonderful state were by and large made by people. And they can be solved by people, too. That’s what New Mexico 2050, the book from which this text is taken, is about.

      A blueprint for New Mexico’s future.

      A handbook for New Mexico’s leaders and public officials, present and potential.

      A textbook for New Mexico’s students.

      A sourcebook for New Mexico’s teachers and researchers.

      A hymnbook for proud New Mexicans who want our beloved Land of Enchantment also to become the Land of Opportunity, fully and for all.

      ■■■■

      That, I am sure, is what John Byram, the dedicated and farsighted director of the University of New Mexico Press, had in mind when he asked me to organize, produce, and edit New Mexico 2050. And that’s what I, too, had in mind when I agreed to take on the task, after adding in my own mind a theoretical subtitle for the book: What Can We Be? What Will We Be?

      With a grant (for which we’re most grateful) from the McCune Foundation to assist with project expenses, I set out to find recognized New Mexico experts in each subject field.

      And I found them: our contributors. All of us went to work. And it has been a labor of love.

      New Mexico 2050 an honest book. I asked the contributors for each chapter, first, to be descriptive—to say frankly and plainly what the present situation in New Mexico is—about the economy, for example, or the environment. And they have done that. They tell what our liabilities are, of course. But they also tell what our assets are.

      New Mexico 2050 is a courageous book. I asked the contributors for each chapter, next, to be

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