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

The Hechinger Report

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006. It’s a traditionally oral language, and speakers frown on any written form.

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OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools

The Hechinger Report

And — since the 2020 national reckonings about racial injustice, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and ongoing debates about critical race theory — how can we reimagine the U.S. history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable?

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

. * * * My most recent connection with a cultural center occurred over a year ago when BSC social studies teacher candidates worked with the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center (UGRR) during an informal service-learning project. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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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

By 2000, it had grown to 13 percent, and in 2020, it was almost 40 percent. Russellville’s Hispanic population has grown from close to zero in the late 1980s to nearly 40 percent in 2020. Grimes received a state award for his “remarkable contributions and tireless advocacy for English Learner funding in Alabama schools.”

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‘We just pick up the pieces’: As a new school year starts, this Mississippi Delta community is fighting for survival

The Hechinger Report

Now, district officials are trying to regroup for the 2020-21 academic year amid a global pandemic and financial crisis that threatens to outmaneuver even the most well-thought-out school reopening plans. She also spoke at a virtual gathering of the Poor People’s Campaign, an advocacy group.

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Making their work count: Political Science students improve Wikipedia

MPSA

They’ve also tackled subjects on a more national scale, such as the 2020 United States Census. Canadian students improved the articles on the Department of Canadian Heritage as well as Open data in Canada. Students have improved topics ranging from the Constitution of Tennessee to the Idaho Military Department.