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Students and teachers deserve fair evaluations Superintendent Joel Boyd wants to delay use of test scores to ensure Santa Fe Public Schools gets the teacher evaluation process right. OPINIONS, B-1
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very year on the days of school first two , I visit every school-based facschool in the good teacher is tor in determining come back studen district to welcritical to their cess and highly suc- debunked the academic sucLargely celebra ts and teachers. regarded researc as mythology. tory, my visits ers have proven hMore than one study has cess of any studen to classrooms on it. So one might found these days are impact on studen no apparent in a single year t reasonably ask why we haven’ brief and begin with ts related to masis done more to t a somewhat stanter’s degree attainm the recognize high dard script: quality of the performers and rid and limited differe ent by teachers teacher in his or classrooms of “My job as superi perfor low mers. Why quality past three nces in teacher ntendent is to her classroom. make sure that years of experi beyond a doubt can’t we ensure Joel Boyd you have everyence. Locally, This conclusion, that thing that you we the have a high-quality teache need for a succes Legislative FinancNew Mexico most notably prer in every classschool year. Do sful sented room in every you have everythrough a large-s recently report e Committee thing that you ed cale analysis urgent questio school? That’s the of Tennessee test need?” investment into that the state n teacher quality Generally, the New Mexico andthat has placed 1990s, has been scores in the late through the tiered response is a choother states in heavily debate ral “yes” from licensure system this quandary d but largely suppor resulted in no the class, but this of test-ba ted by signifi sed every year, one elemen teacher in the cant notable evaluations. piece of literatu educational outcomdifference re on the topic to defy conven tary student chose in recent es for children when tion. years. In comparing across “Dr. Boyd,” he Ensuring a good economist Eric 2010, Stanford current teache Hanushek calcula r licensure levels. teacher have a successfulsaid, “all I need to that the impact ted in every class If good teachin school year is of room good teacher.” a child’s academ a teacher on a teristics of qualityg or the characic development While the literatu In one statement, is so great that abovebe defined objecti teachers can’t re is clear on the importance this fourthaverage teache vely based on grader clearly rs genera of inputs having te hundreds , then it seems summarized what good teachers, it is far researchers have dollars in additio of thousands of to classroom output logical to look held true for more it takes to be a less clear on what nal future earnin s for a better than 20 years. good teacher. solution. Hence for their studen gs The single greates The popularly held , the current movets. t belief that experi ment toward statisti Our students know ence and advanc that having a analysis and outcomcal test score to better teachin ed degrees lead e-based meag has been widely Please see BOYD LETTERS TO , Page B-4 THE EDIT
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Jan Green holds a photo of herself and her horse taken when she was about 16 as she sits earlier this month in her bedroom in Minnesota. Green, who has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, was locked up alone for a total of eight months at Central New Mexico’s Valencia County Detention Center. Green says she hopes to one day feel as strong as she did when she was a teenager. ANN HEISENFELT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Santa Fe Pro Musica The orchestra’s 33rd season opens with performances of Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 5 and Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring pianist Melissa Marse, 3 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $10-$65, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234.
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his column is not about the governor’s underwear — though I won’t be surprised if I governor over get accused of attacking the her underwear. It’s about the fine ing.” And it applies art of political “framto the situatio ago when The n two years New Mexican and other news organizations reveale tinez’s administratio d that Gov. Susana Marn was using private accounts to do email government busine of evading public ss in hopes record At the time, Democ s requests. rats and Martin ics tried to frame ez crita “shadow governthat as Martinez running ment.” But now Martin ez supporters have and her it around. Forget turned “shadow govern the all about pervy ment,” it’s liberals obsessed with the nor’s underwear. goverThe underwear flap — so to speak — in December 2012.began The Steve Terrell Santa Fe Report er Roundhouse a piece on a huge wrote cache of Martinez’s Roundup emails they received in records reques a public t from the Attorn Office. (The leak ey later was traced General’s nez’s former campa to ign manager, nowMartiing sentencing awaitfor and lying to the illegally intercepting email FBI about it.) The story said Gary King, now that Attorney General the Democratic for governor, “releas nominee ed ing anything, eventhe emails … without purcha li
Expanding ISIS fight would mean hard choices for Obama
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A prisoner stands Tuesday in an isolation cell in Dane County, Wis.
With scarce treatment options, mentally ill inmates end up in isolation
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s a retired Santa had the privile Fe police detective, I ge of working closely with Officer Ben It is a shame that Chavarria for several years. death, The New in reporting the news of his Mexican chose false accusations to that were made emphasize the the previous police against him by could have empha administration. Perhaps you sized Chava the community rria’s impact on he served; his kindness h
$90K sought to further examine vets’ response to naprapathic therapy
For more than 30 years, Marine veteran Dan Gandee, 51, had trouble talking about the 1983 bombing of the U.S. military barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, by the Islamic Jihad. The attack killed 241 American servicemen, including 220 Marines. Gandee was deployed there in the aftermath of the carnage. The memories hurt. His body aches, too, recoiling into a defensive position when he hears unexpected noises. “It’s the armor protecting us. The events we experienced caused us to be ultra vigilant and ever-ready. There’s a lot of tension associated with that,” he said. But recently, Gandee said, he has gotten some relief from an alternative type of medicine: naprapathy. A form of physical therapy, it works on the soft connective tissue that holds the skeletal frame together. After 10 visits to Patrick Nuzzo’s Southwest University of Naprapathic Medicine at The Lofts on Cerrillos Road, Gandee said he is feeling better, sleeping longer and opening up emotionally. Now Nuzzo is hoping to get a bill through the Legislature that would appropriate $90,000 for a study on the
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ay or night, the lights inside cell 135C of Central New Mexico’s Valencia County Detention Center were always on. Locked inside, alone, for a total of eight months, Jan Green said she heard the constant drip of water from a broken showerhead, pitting the concrete floor where she curled up on a sleeping pad. When she
was awake, Green — a 52-year-old computer technician diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder — rocked back and forth on a 3-foot bench, hour after hour, confiding in an imaginary companion. “I didn’t have a calendar or a pencil. I didn’t have anything. So … I pretended I had a friend in there with me,” Green said. “I would talk and hold conversations just in my little crazy world, I guess you would say, just to keep me company.”
Though locked in solitary, Green was, in a sense, far from alone. In jails around the country, inmates with serious mental illnesses are kept isolated in small cells — some no wider than a man’s arm span — for 23 hours a day or more, often with little or no treatment or human interaction. In New Mexico alone, Green is one of three mentally ill people who have sued county jails since 2008 over prolonged solitary confinement.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s military campaign against the Islamic State group already has extended beyond the limits he first outlined. But military experts inside and outside the administration argue that an even greater expansion may be needed for the mission to succeed, including positioning U.S. ground troops with front-line Iraqi security forces. Doing that could put Obama close to violating his pledge to keep Americans out of combat. For Obama, re-engaging in combat in Iraq would mean going back on promises about the current mission and undercutting a pillar of his presidency — ending long wars and avoiding new ones. If commanders request ground troops and he turns them down, Obama could be accused of putting his legacy first. Obama has shown a willingness to expand the size and scope of the fight against the Islamic State extremist group.
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INSIDE u Suspicions run deep in Iraq that the CIA and Islamic State are united. u Over 100 Americans have left to join extremists or are accused of supporting them from the U.S. PAGE A-6
Local authors fume as Bezos hosts a secrecy-shrouded summit in Santa Fe Writers’ war with Internet retailer continues as CEO gathers notable figures for cultural soirée By Anne Constable The New Mexican
A hush-hush, very private, underthe-radar, author-schmoozing affair for the creative elites is taking place in Santa Fe. Nobody, but nobody in the know will talk on the record about Camp-
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fire, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ early autumn gathering of writers and other visionary types held in recent years at the Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort & Spa. It’s the local version of Northern California’s Bohemian Grove, although that all-male retreat is filled with politicians and captains
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of industry. Everyone connected with the covert affair here is sworn to secrecy — hotels, restaurants, even those who handle staging and logistics. As one author who has participated in the past put it, “Campfire is a private event, and the sponsors prefer to avoid all publicity.” As far as The New Mexican could determine, no local writers are
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos watches from the wings during the June 18 launch of the Amazon Fire Phone in Seattle. Bezos is hosting a covert gathering for the culturally elite in Santa Fe. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
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