Hanna Skandera, New Mexico’s secretary of education, told the Journal last week that she and Martinez, a Republican in her second term, still view Common Core as the best way to measure student achievement in public schools.
“Bottom line, it’s about the opportunity to raise our expectations for every student in our state,” Skandera said in an interview. “We believe in high standards, and we believe in setting our students up so they have the right skills, knowledge and the opportunity to succeed. We think these standards are the right ones for achieving our goals.”
The standards introduced in New Mexico five years ago and backed by President Barack Obama’s administration measure student proficiency in mathematics, language arts and literacy. The learning goals outline the basics of what a student should know and be able to accomplish academically at the end of each grade from kindergarten through high school.
