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New Mexico State University

COE Educational Research and Budgeting Office

COE SW Border Health and Education Research Cluster

COE's SW Border Education Research agenda is to assist teachers and communities in the geographical areas on the Mexican Border and on the Indian Reservations in the four cooperating states, Arizona, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico, to develop skills that will ensure the quality education for the students in their respective locales. Our research scope includes professional development, leadership, literacy, and bilingual and multilingual education and teaching and learning materials. The agenda includes a strong technology component to support the various development efforts, especially in the design and preparation of teaching and learning materials, both for face-to-face and distance classes.

Some of the COE Initiatives and Laboratories in this category are:

  • Drs. Dana Christman and Maria Luisa Gonzales, with Dr. Rafael Guillory, visiting professor from Washington State University, are co-PIs on the $1.2 million American Indian Administration Project (MAISA). This 3-year federal grant provides funding for American Indian school personnel to attain their Master's degrees so that they can serve as administrators in schools with high pERBentages of American Indian Students. Project MAISA site

  • Dr. Anne Gallegos is the PI on the four-year Border Walking Multicultural Special Educaton Doctoral Leadership Program funded by a grant from the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services in the U.S. Department of Education. This $800,000 program supports 10 full-time, minority doctoral students (practicing teachers) who are preparing for leadership positions in universities, public schools, and community agencies.

  • Dr. Hermán S. García runs Project Literacy, a Title I funded teacher preparation project for bilingual and ESL Master’s Degree and endorsement-seeking graduate students. The funding is provided through a grant from the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) and covers tuition, fees and a stipend for books.

  • Drs. Hermán S. García and Loui Reyes are partners in an ASU project to help Navajo children find success in school called the Navajo Early-Childhood Education Partnership (NEEP). They have received a $2.5 million federal Early Reading First grant for this project in the Navajo Nation. The funds will help prepare youngsters from low-income Navajo families to succeed academically and socially in kindergarten and beyond. ASU’s partners are the Navajo Nation, New Mexico State University and the Southwest Institute for Families and Children with Special Needs. Over the next two years, college-level professional development training will be provided for up to 150 Head Start teachers serving nearly 3,000 Navajo children in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Family-community-school teams also will be established to help ensure that the children have the skills they need to enter school ready to learn.