Advocacy Heritage Tradition 
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 16, 2021
It was a moment she’d been waiting for since her freshman year — not just to graduate from high school, but also to wear her traditional Yup’ik headdress and mukluks. The traditional Yup’ik headdress Andrew wore at graduation is made of sealskin, beaver and wolf fur and trimmed with black and gold beads.
ED Surge
MAY 20, 2024
Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms. Africans were skilled laborers, mathematicians and astronomers.
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ED Surge
JULY 19, 2023
And then when you go into more affluent communities or communities where there's stronger advocacy, you're gonna see projects and you're gonna see stories and you're gonna see kids sharing their own voices. “And we're gonna see, unfortunately, a lot of spreadsheets that have numbers and yellow and red cells,” Gonzalez says.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 18, 2023
Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Hall’s status meant that when she was earning her degrees, she didn’t qualify for financial assistance designed for Native students.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Traditional language learning in the U.S. At the first section meeting in early September, 16 students — heritage speakers and language learners — chattered in Chinese and English as they crowded into a seminar room. is in trouble. Is this approach an answer? Most kids don’t want to become a linguist or get a Ph.D.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2024
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.
ED Surge
MAY 20, 2024
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. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.
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