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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

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Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. In addition, the civic summit afforded me professional learning and the opportunity to collaborate with UGRR educational specialists. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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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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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

ED Surge

But just before the pandemic, she says she was approached by FreedomWorks, an advocacy group funded by the Koch brothers, big political donors, and associated with the “tea party” movement in favor of libertarian ideas. McCoy says he prizes them primarily for instilling moral and civic virtues in students.

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

The Hechinger Report

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions.