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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.

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Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care

Anthropology News

Second, IDCs support the overall research enterprise in universities, research institutes, and NGOs, and can be shared with departments and PIs to provide bridge grants, develop research partnerships and infrastructure including community engagement, and create opportunities for new students, post-docs and researchers. Feldman, J.

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Among Gun Rights Activists, Fears About Survival Reign

Sapiens

But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members. ORGANIZING MILITIAS Most of the militia members I met in Virginia were self-identified men of Western, Northern, and Eastern European heritage.

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