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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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Making their work count: Political Science students improve Wikipedia

MPSA

Students have tackled subjects ranging from African Politics to Women, Politics, and Political Leadership and everything in between. Canadian students improved the articles on the Department of Canadian Heritage as well as Open data in Canada. More than 3,600 students from 154 courses have added over 3.7

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A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

The Hechinger Report

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Whenever we need something, we simply ask for it and they do their best to get it for us,” Martínez said of his district’s leadership. And even if they can’t, they find alternatives that we can use.”

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

Anthropology News

Language restrictions, grant terminations and the cap on IDCsrepresent a direct attack on science including OUR science, on scholarship, rigorous health research for public health benefit, and the nonprofit science/social science advocacy world. Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise. The Heritage Foundation.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

In 2016, the right-wing Heritage Foundation proposed turning the BIE into an education savings account, or ESA, which would grant families a portion of their childs per-pupil funding to spend on private school tuition, home-school supplies and other educational expenses. That same year, the late Arizona Sen. public schools.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

But the National Charter Collaborative, a nonprofit designed to create and support opportunities for charter school leaders of color, has to date identified more than 400 single-site schools in which people of color either lead the school and/or make up at least 30 percent of the board and leadership teams, according to CEO Kim Smith.

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At Moms for Liberty’s national summit, a singular focus on anti-trans issues

The Hechinger Report

Meg Simons, digital strategy manager at the progressive advocacy group People for the American Way, said that the strong showing of protestors in Philadelphia so motivated many older members of her 40-year-old organization that they started Grandparents For Truth to counter Moms for Liberty. Well, we are all learning. It is OK to learn.

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