ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) has signed a multiyear partnership with Cognia , a nonprofit organization, to provide the state's mathematics and English language arts assessments for grades 3-8. With the new partnership, the Cognia-developed New Mexico Measure of Student Success and Achievement (NM-MSSA) will replace the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Transition Assessment for Math and English l