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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

It was a moment she’d been waiting for since her freshman year — not just to graduate from high school, but also to wear her traditional Yup’ik headdress and mukluks. That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns.

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OPINION: Let’s change our approach to traditionally overlooked students

The Hechinger Report

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. And we are proud that U.S.

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OPINION: Students need more educational choices after high school

The Hechinger Report

Unfortunately, many college alternatives, especially career and technical education programs, have a complicated history. Traditional higher education has reached an inflection point. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the cost of college increased by 180 percent after inflation from 1980 to 2019-20.

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It’s not about the money, money, money – until it is. Teacher recruitment and the need for bursaries

Becoming a History Teacher

Except… This year I interviewed an applicant for the PGCE course who had applied to teach history knowing there was a bursary for English of £10k and assuming this was the case for history too. In my role as Co-Chair of HTEN (the History Teacher Educators Network) I have heard this story time and time again.

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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching. Summer is just around the corner -enjoy! Apostolidou, A. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Ancient Soil Secrets: How Indigenous Land Practices Shaped Australia’s Fire-Resilient Landscapes

Anthropology.net

Ancient Mud Unlocks 130,000 Years of Australia’s Fire Management History Australia’s relationship with fire extends back thousands of years, with Indigenous land management practices deeply shaping the continent’s ecology.

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