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Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

Anthropology News

As requested by the local Tibetan community, a linguistic anthropologist (Ward) and graduate student (Moli) adapted the Buddhist-inspired framework of SEE Learning to facilitate reflections on best practices in Tibetan heritage language education. These refugees entered Canada with complex linguistic repertoires.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. government orders to go to an internment camp, as they were called then, saying it was unconstitutional.

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Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Studies Weekly

He implemented the American Indian Telecommunications Satellite Demonstration Project, linking the All-Indian Pueblo Council and the Crow Indian Reservation with the federal government at Washington, D.C. In 2013, she was a nominee to become the U.S. He became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space.

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Tackling the Impossibility—and Necessity—of Counting the World’s Languages

Sapiens

The speakers of many of these languages live deep within roadless rainforests in villages that are very difficult for government representatives and other researchers to access. Perhaps the best-known example is the Linguistic Survey of India , which involved a colossal network of government officials around the country.

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A Conversation About School Choice

Cult of Pedagogy

My own understanding of school choice has been heavily informed by Diane Ravitch’s 2013 book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. Because I’ve always understood school choice as “this is government money that will follow the student to whatever they go to.”

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A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

The Hechinger Report

Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. A Hispanic Heritage Month event that Grimes started in Russellville High School has now grown into a big districtwide celebration , where students learn about different cultures and traditions, perform dances, read celebrated authors and research historical figures.

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The empress’ new clothes

The Hechinger Report

The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word as “a political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite,” and “the movement organized around this philosophy.” The show is clearly meeting the demand of a large swath of America, but populism it ain’t. Last week, the U.S.