New Mexico Education: Do You Know What Is Happening

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New Mexico EducationDo You Know What Is
Happening?
ABQ Business Education Compact June 7, 2007

• Catherine Cross Maple, Ph.D.
• Deputy Secretary
• Learning and Accountability
• catherine.crossmaple_at_state.nm.us
• 505.827.3876
• NM Public Education Department

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Past and Present

• NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL
  PROGRESS
• New Mexico has participated every year since 1990
• NAEP 2005
• 165 schools and 5,435 students in New Mexico
  participated in Grades 4 and 8
• National-20,000 schools and 1.1 million students
• NAEP 2006
• 23 schools, 5 districts and 2 BIA

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Quality Counts 2006

• Reading
• No significant increase in reading scores from
  1992 to present.
• Mathematics
• Significant increases in math scores from 1992 to
  present.
• Gains greatest in low-performing groups.
• Younger groups, Blacks, Hispanics

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NM Public Education

• Knowing the problem we face may be as important
  as the solutions we formulate.
• Understanding the problem helps to solve it.

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NAEP
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Past Performance Grade 4 - 2005
NAEP
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US NM Reading Grade 8 - 2005
NAEP
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Quality Counts 2006

• Standards based policy reform implementation
• The higher the policy implementation score, the
  higher the NAEP test score in reading and math.
• New Mexico received an A on our Standards and
  Accountability and a B for policy
  implementation.

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How Many 9th Graders Make It To, And Through,
College?
Source National Center for Public Policy and
Higher Education, Policy Alert, April 2004. Data
are estimates of pipeline progress rather than
actual cohort.
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EPE (Editorial Projects in Education Research
Center)
Policy Score
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Policy Implementation
EPE (Editorial Projects in Education Research
Center)
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The higher the policy implementation score the
higher the math and reading scores for 4th and
8th grades.
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NAEP Test Score
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EPE (Editorial Projects in Education Research
Center)
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New Mexico Assessment

• RESULTS FROM THE
• SPRING 2006 ASSESSMENT

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Reading Proficiency

• Proficiency of all students in 2006 ranged from a
  high of 58 in 11th grade to a low of 40.4 in
  6th grade.
• Increases in performance in grades 4 and 11.
• Lowest proficiency among students transitioning
  from elementary to middle school and middle
  school to high school.
• NM SBA

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Reading Proficiency
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Reading Students at or Above Proficient by
Ethnicity 2006
NM SBA
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Math Proficiency
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Mathematics Students At or Above Proficient by
Ethnicity 2006
NM SBA
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Science Proficiency
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Science Students At or Above Proficient by
Ethnicity 2006
NM SBA
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Percentage Of Public High School Graduates Taking
College Developmental Classes By Type of
Class(N35,654)
NM OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY 2006
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Percent of Students Taking Literacy and/or
Numeracy Courses In Higher Education By School
Type(N43,540)
NM OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY 2006
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Percentage of Public High School Graduates Taking
Literacy and/or Numeracy Courses By Ethnicity
(N35,579)
NM OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY 2006
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High School Diploma Not The Last Educational Stop
Share of New Jobs, 200010

• Jobs that require at least some postsecondary
  education will make up more than two-thirds of
  new jobs.

Source Carnevale, Anthony P. and Donna M.
Desrochers, Standards for What? The Economic
Roots of K16 Reform, Educational Testing
Service, 2003.
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New Mexico Path to Improvement

• Viewed the National Averages and New Mexicos
  progress regarding policy implementation,
  reading, mathematics, and science
• Statement of obstacles, successes and improvements

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New Mexico Path to Improvement

• Major Policy Initiatives
• 1. Full Implementation of Standards Based
  System
• 2. Resource Equity
• 3. Math Science
• 4. Cohort Graduation Rate
• 5. Closing the achievement gaps within
  subgroups, nationally, internationally

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New Mexico Path to Improvement

• Major Policy Initiatives
• 6. Holistic Approach to Children and Learning
• 7. Students Ready to Learn
• 8. Redesign of High School System
• 9. Instructional Materials Alignment
• 10. Teacher and Principal Quality
• 11. School Improvement Framework
• 12. Seamless P-20 System

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What is Success?

• The definition of success is changing and
  emerging for high schools. Significant shifts in
  role, function and purpose are occurring.

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Groups Capturing the Momentum

• Legislative Education Study Committee Workgroup
• Public Ed/Sandia National Labs Initiative
• New Mexico Town Hall Recommendations
• Higher Ed/Public Ed Alignment Taskforce Dual
  Enrollment
• Governor Richardsons Career Cluster Initiatives
• Southwest Comprehensive Center TA
• Career/Technical Education (Perkins) Initiatives

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Producing the Redesign of New Mexicos High
School System

• Members of the New Mexico Business Roundtable,
  Sandia National Labs, and the New Mexico Public
  Education Department (PED) chartered a team to
  redesign New Mexicos high school system.
• Charged with conceiving a set of models that
  could be flexibly combined to suit the needs of
  the unique regions of the state
• Did not design a single blueprint for every high
  school in New Mexico
• Detailed a collective vision of the high school
  system
• Did not look at incrementally improving what
  currently exists

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Stakeholders Want A Student-Focused High School
System Where

• students are challenged and engaged in relevant
  learning that prepares them for their futures as
  productive citizens.
• schools meet the individualized needs of
  students.
• project-based, active learning experiences are
  driven by student need and interest.
• flexibility and choices exist, including a
  variable pace of completion and active student
  roles and responsibilities in developing,
  executing, and evaluating their own education
  plans.

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Stakeholders Specified Critical Aspects Of The
High School System

• 5. developing lifelong learning skills and a
  love of education
• 6. using modern technologies and multiple
  resources
• 7. a community working together on
  education--one that includes strong roles for
  parents, employers, and community organizations
• 8. high quality teachers who are responsive to
  students and who continue to develop their skills
  and knowledge during their careers
• 9. evidence that students have learned through
  authentic assessments of proficiency-based
  learning benchmarks

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Stakeholders Specified Critical Aspects Of The
High School System

• 10. smooth transitions from middle school to
  high school and from high school to higher
  education and work
• 11. small learning communities
• 12. equitable access to all learning
  opportunities, funding, and outcomes
• 13. a flexible system that builds on and
  reflects native and local cultures
• 14. safe, modern, cost-effective, functional and
  attractive facilities

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The Six High-Priority Concepts

• Collaborative Regional Networks
• Strategic Business Partnerships
• Integrated Technology
• Policy And Statute
• Flexible Scheduling
• Personalized Program Of Study

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Whats Next for New Mexicos High School
Education System?

• Implement new system changes
• Align the high school system with post secondary
  education and the workplace
• Transform classroom instruction

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Implement the New System Changes

• Promulgate Rules for New Graduation Requirements
• Participate in the American Diploma Project to
  ensure NM standards meet college and workplace
  expectations
• Change Current Rule to Raise Dropout Age to 18
• Eliminate Current High School Competency Exam and
  9th Grade Standards Based Assessment
• Develop three-prong high school assess-ment for
  high school, college workplace

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HED/PED Alignment Work Plan

• 1. Complete formal alignment process Default
  Curriculum for Post- Secondary preparation by
  June 2007
• 2. Agree on scoring ranges for high school and
  college entrance exams
• 3. Create an assessment framework for 9th grade
  high school readiness, 10th grade college
  readiness, and 11th grade workplace readiness
• 4. Finalize the dual credit master agreement

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Transform Classroom Instruction

• Create a Voluntary Statewide Mathematics
  Curriculum
• Initiate Statewide Cyber Academy and Online
  Learning
• Align High School Coursework and Curriculum with
  the Standards
• Enroll students in at least one course from the
  following Advanced Placement Dual-Enrollment
  with a 2 or 4 year college On-line or Distance
  Learning