By Zully Rodriguez | Community Organizer, Partnership for Community Action With an education crisis in the State of New Mexico that has lasted at least a decade, and a pandemic that has forced our students to deal with problems ranging from internet access, to the fact that they are having to face education alone from home, we must ask ourselves: …
Would it be easier to control infections if schools were smaller?
By Zully Rodriguez | Community Organizer, Partnership for Community Action Normally, the return to school is accompanied by funny memes where parents are happy to leave children at the school door and run towards freedom, while the teacher is left crying with the task of dealing with a lot of kids bursting with energy for the next six hours. But …
PCA Opens South Valley Colibrí Children’s Play Garden and the Cariño Lending Library!
PCA Partners with UNM Cariño to Open South Valley Lending Library ALBUQUERQUE, NM – The Partnership for Community Action (PCA) is celebrating the grand opening of the Colibrí: Interactive Children’s Play Garden & the UNM Cariño Early Childhood Toy & Lending Library with an Open House this coming Monday August 10th from 12PM-6:00PM. This marks the PCA’s second major investment …
It’s time to replace high-stakes testing with real learning
Adrian Pedroza, PCA’s Executive Director, recently published an Editorial that was featured in the Albuquerque Journal. The editorial offers insight into education in New Mexico. The full editorial is below: It’s time to replace high-stakes testing with real learning Earlier this year the Public Education Department (PED) published graduation rates in Albuquerque and across the state. Albuquerque has improved slightly …
