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The Sand Creek Massacre

Teaching American History

Most of Colorado’s white settlers and their leaders did not understand tribal government. Plains Indian Tribes such as the Cheyenne and Arapaho were not united under a governing alliance. When they negotiated with a tribal leader, they assumed that leader possessed the power to enforce treaties. The reality was very different.

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What happens when teachers run the school

The Hechinger Report

And she was running for the school’s governing board. At the same time, teachers around the country have watched their autonomy erode, due to such factors as standardized testing mandates, laws governing what can and can’t be taught and growing demands for “ parental rights.”

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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: The kind of leadership and responsibility that shone through EB’s speech is actively encouraged at this unusual program in rural Maine. But since 2014, she says, when the district introduced this new outdoor project-based approach, students’ ambition and sense of identity have dramatically improved.

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It used to be a notoriously violent prison. Now it’s home to a first-of-its kind education program

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The Hechinger Report California has been a leader in prison education programs, starting with a 2014 rule authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated. Because of the involvement of senior leadership,” she said, “Cal Poly Humboldt’s was the easiest by far.”

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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A Cross-sector Business Incubator in Taos, New Mexico: Building Networks for Frontline Talent Development

Digital Promise

Propelled in part by the 2014 passage of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), UNM-Taos initiated a program overhaul in 2015 with the goal of aligning educational programs to in-demand career pathways. As Victoria Gonzalez of UNM-Taos poignantly notes: “The ego must die. Leveraging Existing Resources.

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Put youth who break the law where they belong — in a great school

The Hechinger Report

A joint effort between the City of New Orleans and the Orleans Parish School District replaced the Youth Study School – a school in name only – with the Travis Hill School , which has real teachers, legitimate educational leadership and academic lessons that help students make sense of the world. According to the Annie E.