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

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

Charter School

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education

Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations.

Artifacts

Artifacts Heritage Archaeology Cultures

Accounting Streams takes inspiration from CORE Econ’s pioneering introductory textbook

CORE Econ

OCTOBER 23, 2024

‘Accounting as Technical, Social, and Moral Practice: The Monetary Valuation of Public Cultural, Heritage and Scientific Collections in Financial Reports.’ . ‘Representation of knowledge on some management accounting techniques in textbooks.’ ’ Accounting Education , 25(5), pp. van der Kolk. 542-566. .’

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How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School

Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

Soft Skills in Social Studies There is a clear connection between social studies and soft skills like: communication, emotional intelligence, teamwork, and cultural awareness. Teaching these subjects is vital because each equips students with essential knowledge and both hard and soft skills.

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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. They argue that the practice of policing Indigenous students’ graduation attire is symptomatic of an education system woefully ignorant of, and insensitive to, Native culture.

Tradition

Tradition Heritage Cultures High School

American Students Deserve a Multilingual Education

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

population speaks only English as of 2019. While the majority of the population is monolingual, America is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world , with more than 350 languages spoken within its borders, including a wealth of Indigenous and heritage languages. According to the U.S.

K-12

K-12 Education Heritage Middle School

We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. In 2019, 53,291 Bangladeshis made up just 6.3 It’s about my connection with family members and my culture.

History

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Although Black Americans reinvented and established a unique culture, we’re eternally connected to the sub-Sahara.

History

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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

At Kent State University at Ashtabula, 55 black students received an associate or bachelor’s degree between fall 2013 and spring 2019. Between fall 2013 and spring 2019, university officials say, 55 black students received an associate or bachelor’s degree from Ashtabula. Very few have succeeded.

Tutoring

Tutoring Heritage Cultures Psychology

Some rural states are cutting higher ed. One state is doing the opposite

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

percent of its population between 2010 and 2019, Hazard grew by 13 percent. But Lindon is already imagining the possibilities, and the Appalachian culture course that she’d make mandatory for students seeking bachelor’s degrees. We want to teach young people to be proud of our Appalachian heritage.”

Economics

Economics High School Heritage Geography

Native communities want schools to teach Native languages. Now the White House is voicing support

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Between 67 and 100 percent of Indigenous languages in those three countries will disappear within three generations, according to a 2019 analysis of 200 years of global language loss by researcher Gary Simons. The global linguistic crisis is most stark in the predominantly English-speaking countries of the United States, Australia and Canada.

Teaching

Teaching K-12 Heritage Government

A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. She liked the people and the culture and the history. In September 2019, the school office said she had retired.

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English learners stopped coming to class during the pandemic. One group is tackling the problem by helping their parents

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

In California, only 10 percent of English learners were chronically absent in 2019. Since before the pandemic, the rate of chronically absent English language learners more than doubled, from 16 percent in 2019 to 36 percent in 2022. By 2022, the rate had more than tripled to 34 percent.

Heritage

Heritage Elementary School High School Tradition

Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict

Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2024

In “ Strange Future ,” Nigerian eco-activist and cultural worker Ojo Taiye doubts the tricky nature of hope while feeling his heart begin “to dream again”—imagining “any tree” as a ladder. Just as devastation comes as “tangible” and “material,” as Junaid points out, visions and dreams can bring alternate possibilities.

Anthropology

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

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

A self-described Southern conservative and man of faith from rural Alabama, Grimes, 48, set about overhauling instruction for English learners, establishing culturally relevant extracurriculars and reaching out to the Hispanic community. They love family. They’re hard workers and many have faith in Christ.

High School

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage

Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Ríos, the school’s librarian, holds a paper flower made by students for a Mexican heritage celebration. Experts point to a confluence of factors for this, including poverty, culture, trauma and a lack of comprehensive sexual health education. “My Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. “My She motivates me a lot.”.

High School

High School Heritage Public School Tradition

Diverse future of the Midwest has already arrived in one Iowan school

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. And in high school, they move on to advanced language courses, including two AP Spanish classes (“Language and Culture” and “Literature and Culture”). In middle school, they take a special language arts block class in Spanish.

Middle School

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How the anti-CRT push has unraveled local support for schools

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2024

According to the study, conservative think tanks such as the Manhattan Institute and Heritage Foundation and the group Moms for Liberty drafted specific narratives that brought CRT into the mainstream.

Heritage

Heritage K-12 Education Policy Research

‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Educators encourage students to share their personal stories as a way to feel proud of their heritage, recognize how strong they are and process trauma. Still, between October 2018 and September 2019 more than 75,000 unaccompanied minors — children who arrived in the U.S. In 2019, it ranked fourth of all counties in the U.S.

Elementary School

Elementary School High School Cultures Public School

The Modern Regulation of Environmental Protection In Kentucky

Life and Landscapes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And in that same year, Eastern Kentucky Lawyer, Harry Caudill, would publish Night Comes to the Cumberlands, his expose of the coal industry and a description of the mountain culture of Eastern Kentucky. The first great wave of modern environmental protection came out of the cultural revolutions of the 1960s.

History

History Government Heritage Humanities

OPINION: Time to bring back our relationship with UNESCO for its strong commitment to education

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

For years, the Three Rivers Local School District , which includes Taylor High School,has relied on UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to help broaden minds in a school environment that library media specialist Marney Murphy describes as “sheltered.”.

Human Rights

Human Rights Education Heritage Library

What education could look like under Trump and Vance

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S.

K-12

K-12 Education Private School Charter School

Among Gun Rights Activists, Fears About Survival Reign

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As an Afghan American, I often encounter perceptions that radicalization and political instability in Afghanistan are intrinsic to Afghans or Middle Eastern “culture.” But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members.

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

Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past

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Accounting Streams takes inspiration from CORE Econ’s pioneering introductory textbook

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School

Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

American Students Deserve a Multilingual Education

We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

Some rural states are cutting higher ed. One state is doing the opposite

Native communities want schools to teach Native languages. Now the White House is voicing support

A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

English learners stopped coming to class during the pandemic. One group is tackling the problem by helping their parents

Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict

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

Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

Diverse future of the Midwest has already arrived in one Iowan school

How the anti-CRT push has unraveled local support for schools

‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

The Modern Regulation of Environmental Protection In Kentucky

OPINION: Time to bring back our relationship with UNESCO for its strong commitment to education

What education could look like under Trump and Vance

Among Gun Rights Activists, Fears About Survival Reign

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