By: Ben Spradlin It’s no secret that COVID had a negative effect on New Mexico, or anywhere for that matter. Thousands of New Mexicans died,  lost their jobs, and many profitable businesses went out of business. The big question is: How has the economy’s recovery plan been affected while we have been reopening and getting […]

By: Gavin Lujan It has been a month since Hurricane Ida made landfall on August 30th, 2021 on the Louisiana coast. Homes were flooded, communities destroyed, and streets trashed, with around a million Louisiana residents that lost electricity. There is an ongoing effort to recover and rebuild what was lost to the storm. The initial […]

Something that stands out at the ASK Academy is the amount of silence during class discussions. From Math to English, a majority of students do not participate in class discussions, why? Communications between scholars at ASK and teachers during class conversations varies greatly for a variety of reasons.  Research by Zierold, K.M, and McGeeney found […]