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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

Traditional regalia, such as an eagle feather, is often given to Native students by family members or other loved ones to celebrate their personal achievements as well as their heritage. Across the country, some state lawmakers have begun to respond to the demands of student activists and Native advocacy organizations.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015. But on many campuses, learning a second language is treated simply as a box to check.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

ED Surge

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. We often use catch-all acronyms and shorthand like “POC,” “BIPOC,” and “Black and brown people” to describe experiences of discrimination and oppression of people in the U.S. who are not white.

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

The Hechinger Report

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. On May 11, 2015, Grimes was voted in unanimously as Russellville’s new school superintendent. Yet their success matters: Today in the U.S.,

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

The BIE closed Havasupai Elementary for nearly a month in 2015 because of insufficient staffing. The bill didnt advance, but Heritage resurrected the idea last year in its Project 2025 transition plan for the next president. The school had 10 principals in as many years. That same year, the late Arizona Sen. public schools.

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