The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Oregon Public Broadcasting Hall — who graduated in 2021 with a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Oregon — is the language coordinator for the Coquille Indian Tribe. “I spent months writing,” she said, “just crying while I wrote because of how it felt to not be recognized.”

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

Billionaire dark money funded the conservative infrastructure that initiated attacks on critical race theory and DEI at all levels of education led by the Heritage Foundation. This was 2021, and Iowa had just passed its history censorship law. Why should we all be alarmed? I was teaching for critical thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Yet a 2021 study found that dual-language “education can benefit … even students who often struggle in school because of special education needs.” States and the federal government could, and should, incentivize districts to open programs where there is the most need, and discourage programs targeted mostly at English speakers.

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

ASKING “THE GODDAMN INDIAN” In March 2021, I (co-author Alicia) met with George and his son, Mike, over Zoom. 3 in 1874 with the Canadian government. As part of this journey, the circle will consider how Insider worldviews can be translated for Outsiders , listening in a way few Outsiders have done. Grand Chief John Crow Marten (a.k.a.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

12, 2021, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In Oklahoma, the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit against the state on behalf of students, educators and civil right groups over House Bill 1775 , a law approved in 2021 that bans schools from teaching certain concepts related to race and gender. “We

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

They create relationships between the humans who offer them and the more-than-humans who live in the mountains and are, indeed, the mountains: powerful protectors who preside over deities, spirits, and forces that govern everyday events. By raising prayer flags above the mundane parts of the everyday, a person’s life forces also lift.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

On October 25, 2021, using his power as chair of the Texas House Committee on General Investigating, Krause sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency and to school districts listing some 850 books. “I I was beyond shocked that somebody from our state government was asking what books were available in our school libraries.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In 2021, Siembo, along with local anthropologist and co-author George Umoja and other like-minded Rusingans, started the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization (RIPO). The group shares information about the islands ancient history and the role of local collaborators in discovering that heritage.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Russellville City school district created De La Rosa’s position in early 2021 as part of a larger effort to help educate its growing population of students who speak English as a second language. Since 2021, Russellville High has been named one of the top 25 schools in Alabama by U.S. Just drawing,” De La Rosa said.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

They include Julia Alvarez’s 1991 novel, “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,” about four immigrant sisters from the Dominican Republic — a popular pick for readers during Latinx Heritage Month.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The schools remoteness on a 518-acre reservation the government forcibly relocated the Havasupai people to more than 150 years ago makes it a challenge to staff, and chronic turnover required the few educators who remained to teach multiple grades at once. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations.

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2025

The program, which turned 60 this year, was earmarked for elimination in Project 2025 the governing playbook by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation that is guiding the current administrations cost-cutting policies. There are families that ask, Are you closing? or Should I be worried?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For instance, conservatives are eager to get the government involved in biological screenings to determine if kids have the “correct” genitalia for peeing in a particular bathroom or playing on a particular sports team. President-elect Trump’s education platform was made of much vaguer stuff — mostly culture war vibes.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Capitol in 2021. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the country’s collapse to the Taliban in 2021. But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members. cities, in part provoked by the Israel-Hamas war. We in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Trump’s 2021 budget proposal called for eliminating the federal Preschool Development Grant program and decreased funding for a federal program that helps low-income college students pay for child care. . The Biden administration rescinded the commission, but Trump has pledged to reinstate it if reelected. .”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Faced with the end of pandemic aid and more pressure on all fronts — some 16,000 child care providers closed permanently between December 2019 and March 2021 — states have been more assertive than ever before in developing their own child care policies. For a time, it looked like the country might be headed in a very different direction.

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