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By: Seth Biderman
Apparently our school board’s getting ready to “lawyer up”]]> Alan M. Webber
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By: Laura Paskus
Last month, a fertilizer plant exploded in the tiny town of West, Texas, killing 15 people and injuring almost 200.]]>
By: Seth Biderman
Tennessee seems to be the latest hotspot for school reform.]]>
By: Laura Paskus
It’s no secret that New Mexico is one of the nation’s hot spots for nuclear activity.]]>
By: Seth Biderman
I haven’t met Ernesto Prada, but I hope to someday. He’s a student at Santa Fe High, and he’s asking the very question we’ve been researching at the Academy for the Love of Learning for the last couple years: What can “school” be?]]>
By: Laura Paskus
One of the hallmarks of wolf recovery in New Mexico and Arizona is the intensity of emotion it ignites on both sides of the issue.]]>
By: Seth Biderman
Great to hear President Obama talk about expanding preschool in last week’s State of the Union address; less inspiring was his idea for older kids.]]>
By: Laura Paskus
Sometimes at night, I lie in bed and imagine the Rio Grande.]]>
By: Christian Casillas
Like many teachers, children and families in Santa Fe and beyond, I’ve come to believe that creating a more sustainable economy and community begins with rethinking our education system.]]>
By: Laura Paskus
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been hearing a lot about industry influence—unprecedented industry influence—within state government, including the New Mexico Environment Department.]]>
By: Seth Biderman
Turns out our new superintendent was a troublemaker when he was in school. In a recent interview with Nancy Udell of Santa Fe Stories, Joel Boyd describes how he frequented the principal’s office until his high school wrestling coach, of all people, helped him get on track.]]>
By: Laura Paskus
When the nights finally turned colder, I hated to close my bedroom window for the season. I’ll miss waking in the night to the syncopated yowls of coyotes. On some primal level the sound alarms me—emergency! wake up!—but after a second or two, that tight tunnel of adrenaline swells into some mix of happiness and gratitude.]]>
By: Dani Katz and Rob Wilder
I’m dancing with my friends in Taylor’s living room, singing along with Stevie Wonder, and delighting in the smell of Topanga Canyon wafting through the windows.]]>
By: Dani Katz and Rob Wilder
I give my carry-on and the bin holding my desert boots and water bottle a shove, and wave down the pasty TSA agent manning the body-scanning machine. “I’m opting out,” I tell him.]]>
By: Seth Biderman
In the second presidential debate, on Oct. 16, the men who would rule our nation uttered the word “children” just once in 90 minutes—when Romney declared we’re all “children of the same God.” They said “job” 100 times and “tax” or “taxes” 76, but “education” was mentioned only 13 times, generally as a footnote to comments about the economy or gun control.]]>
By: Laura Paskus
Jean Ossorio recalls the first time she spotted a Mexican wolf. It was 12 years ago this month. In the spring of 2000, biologists had released two adults and three pups into eastern Arizona as part of an ongoing program to restore wolves to the Southwest.]]>
By: Dani Katz
The hot springs were as much an Iceland draw as the elusive and as-yet-unseen aurora borealis. So, after two days spent tooling around Reykjavik, I’m itching to get out into the countryside and into a geothermal pool.]]>
By: Seth Biderman
For years after becoming a classroom teacher, I wondered if I was truly a professional. People said I was a professional, but I didn’t get paid all that much and, unlike my lawyer buddies, I never had time for a game of tennis at lunch.]]>
By: Laura Paskus
In 1996, with a gold Honda hatchback full of books and camping gear, I moved to New Mexico.]]>