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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

ED Surge

Perhaps it is because I am Mexican American and colonization is a part of my ancestry. Many independent schools like mine have “ Portraits of a Graduate ”, an outcomes-oriented document that outlines the academic and life skills every graduating student is expected to master. I have always felt connected to Indigenous peoples.

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By suspending protesting students, what lessons are Syracuse University leaders teaching?

The Hechinger Report

Since November 7, 2019, the student-run newspaper The Daily Orange has documented at least 30 hate incidents on or near campus that have largely gone unaddressed and unpunished. The suspensions were handed down after students refused to leave a campus administrative building.

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Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education — with one big exception

The Hechinger Report

In a working paper distributed this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research, they documented that most immigrant groups either arrived with high levels of education or their U.S. Trejo’s own mixed ancestry inspired him to pursue this topic. immigrants are actually relatively well-educated.

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Norway law decrees: Let childhood be childhood

The Hechinger Report

million people , about 82 percent of whom are of Norwegian ancestry, across a space roughly the size of Montana. The framework focuses heavily on play, a word that is repeated 56 times in the English version of the document. Norway, a democracy with a figurehead monarchy, is home to about 5.5

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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

Teaching America’s story with thoroughness, but without bias, is simpler with primary documents. About 36% of the student body identifies as Hispanic, 33% as Caucasian, 21% as African American, and the remaining tenth as Asian or of mixed-race ancestry. “Too many students think, ‘That’s what my teacher said, so it must be true.’”

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Ancient Iberian Slate Plaques: Early Genealogical Records?

Anthropology.net

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. This suggests register numbers increased with generational distance from the ancestral homeland.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

Saykhamphone, who has Laotian and Nigerian ancestry, said there are not many other Black or Hispanic students in her accelerated International Baccalaureate (IB) classes, even though 85 percent of the student body is Black, Hispanic or Asian. Glenn Youngkin, a conservative Republican.

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