By Polly Summar Albuquerque Journal Staff Writer GALLINA— This tiny town nestled among the giant red cliffs west of Georgia O’Keeffe country was facing the same issues so many rural communities face: How do you keep the kids interested in their communities,...
by Robert Nott The Santa Fe New Mexican In the roughly eight months that I have been the full-time education reporter for The New Mexican, I’ve received a lot of comments from concerned parties and parents regarding various issues — including the closure of small...
By Polly Summar Albuquerque Journal Staff Writer SANTO DOMINGO – Kathleen Coriz, 15, stands on the bleachers outside the Santo Domingo School where she attended kindergarten through eighth grade. “I pledge to make my family, my community and my state proud,” she says...
By Polly Summar Albuquerque Journal Staff Writer ZIA PUEBLO— Maura Studi stands in front of a classroom of eighthgraders as they easily reel off the list of film genres they know: comedy, action, drama, adventure, mystery, horror, romance, fantasy. A screenwriter and...
