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A school year like no other: The class of 2021 played ‘the hand we were dealt’

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Jaden Huynh, then 16 and a sophomore at Arvada West High School in a suburb northwest of Denver, circled the dinner table plating goi — a Vietnamese salad — and spring rolls for her family’s Easter dinner and silently counted all the empty seats for cousins and extended relatives. Credit: Jake Holschuh for The Hechinger Report. You got in?’

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What’s school without grade levels?

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Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

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If black lives matter, so do historically black colleges and universities

The Hechinger Report

People who know American history, specifically black history, don’t ask if we need HBCUs. They know that as soon as the Civil War commenced and enslaved blacks left plantations, they looked for new places to live and new schools to attend. We are still segregated because school leaders are not fighting it.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

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Related: Can we trace the roots of Charlottesville to school segregation? The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. history and its legacy today.”

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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Its “ 1776 Curriculum ” for grades K-12 has been criticized for revisionist history, including whitewashed accounts of US slavery and depictions of Jamestown as a failed communist colony. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

The Hechinger Report

With respect to Native students, Trump as president released a “Putting America’s First Peoples First” brief outlining his promises to Indian Country, including access to college scholarships for Native American students, creating new tribally operated charter schools and improving the beleaguered agency that oversees K-12 education on reservations.

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What education could look like under Harris and Walz

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During his time as governor, Walz signed legislation last year to make college tuition-free for Native American students in Minnesota and required K-12 teachers to complete training on Native American history. Walz, who signed the law in 2023, made Minnesota one of only eight states to have a universal school meal policy.

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