vistas – New Mexico Education https://nmeducation.org Your home for all things education in The Land of Enchantment Thu, 02 Nov 2023 01:58:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://nmeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/11-29-2021_NewMexico_NMEducationLogo_V1-08-150x150.png vistas – New Mexico Education https://nmeducation.org 32 32 202004729 Literacy Rates Climb as Math Falls in New Mexico https://nmeducation.org/literacy-rates-climb-as-math-falls-in-new-mexico/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 01:51:23 +0000 https://nmeducation.org/?p=5263 The 2022-2023 assessment results for New Mexico released by the NMPED earlier today reveal a varied educational landscape for New Mexico students. While literacy rates reported by the NMPED showed a promising increase of four percent, with 38 percent of students now proficient in English Language Arts, mathematics proficiency experienced a concerning decline, dropping by one percent to 24 percent proficiency. This trend was reflected across various demographics, with notable gains in ELA proficiency among Hispanic, Black, Asian, and Native American students, but a significant decrease among White students. Conversely, mathematics proficiency remained stagnant or decreased across all groups, except for a slight increase among Asian students. Significant data issues remain and continue to create confusion in determining overall statewide performance comparisons.

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]]> 5263 Where Are the Scores? https://nmeducation.org/where-are-the-scores/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:37:06 +0000 https://nmeducation.org/?p=5253 Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham claimed a 4.3 percent increase in literacy rates at a September literacy conference in New Mexico, but no evidence of this improvement has been made public. Meanwhile, the state's graduation rates for 2022 showed a slight decline. New Mexico has a history of testing disruptions, including the discontinuation of the PARCC test in 2019, a federal waiver in 2020 due to COVID-19, and limited testing in 2021. The state introduced the New Mexico Measures of Student Success and Achievement (NM-MSSA) in 2022. New Mexico is the only state in the region that has not released student assessment data for 2023.

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]]> 5253 New Mexico Graduation Rates Show Slight Dip in 2022 https://nmeducation.org/new-mexico-graduation-rates-show-slight-dip-in-2022/ Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:00:00 +0000 https://nmeducation.org/?p=5248 The New Mexico Public Education Department released graduation data for the class of 2022. The data shows a slight decline in the overall graduation rate to 76 percent, down from 76.8 percent in 2021. Gender disparities persisted, with females graduating at 80 percent and males at 73 percent. Ethnic and racial differences were evident, with Asian students graduating at the highest rate at 88 percent, while African American students graduated at a rate of 70 percent. Economically disadvantaged students graduated at a rate of 72 percent, and students with disabilities graduated at 67 percent. English Language Learners graduated at a rate of 76 percent while homeless students had a much lower rate of graduating at 61 percent. Compared to 2021, the overall graduation rate dropped by 0.8 percentage points, and gender disparities remained consistent.

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