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The Sand Creek Massacre

Teaching American History

Buffalo were disappearing from their traditional hunting grounds, and their people were hungry. Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland University’s Masters Program in American History and Government. Brady, New York. Other Cheyenne and Arapahos were tired of fighting.

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COLUMN: Time for white people to have ‘the talk’ with their kids

The Hechinger Report

It probably means you’re not regularly talking with them about current events and they’re not getting a good education about American history in school. When he was 4 in 2014, I talked to him about how Michael Brown had been killed by the police.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

While teachers still provide some instruction, students also get to take classes online, and they have the option of moving through the coursework at a faster pace than traditional school schedules allow. Some District 428 students earn double the number of credits common in a traditional academic year.

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College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out

The Hechinger Report

Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Without tribal status and consequent financial aid, Perrantes owed $27,000 in student loans after finishing her associate degree in clean energy technologies at Washington’s Shoreline Community College in 2014. Her credit score took a hit.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, a black student was attacked by a group of men in a truck as she returned to an off-campus housing complex, largely populated by Ole Miss students. Many in the Ole Miss community talk about tradition, she said, and often use it as a crutch. “Is The men doused her with alcohol and called her a black n *r.*

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

He did it at Tuskegee in 1906, and in his remarks which were covered in the New York Times , he said such things as Today, you graduates of Hampton are continuing a tradition of law-abiding Black men, because at this college something like 6,000 graduates have come from here, but only two have proven to be criminals.