Rural school goes from worst to among best in 3 years

...While Tohatchi Elementary School is a new building this year, with walls decorated with Navajo language posters and student artwork, the demographics of poverty and language have added up in the past to some of the worst test scores in New Mexico....
Tohatchi boosted its math scores from 15% of the students being proficient in 2006 to nearly 78% this year. Reading scores rose from nearly 28% of the students being proficient to almost 71% this year, according to state data....
...Daria Hall, director of K-12 policies with The Education Trust, based in Washington, D.C., said that schools like Tohatchi "are proof positive that when we organize for student success, low-income and English language learning students can perform at high levels."
USA Today