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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.

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Teaching What Self-Government Requires

Teaching American History

Many students enter high school government classes knowing very little about the way the American constitutional system really works. If given only a textbook account of American government, they leave the course still unaware of what self-government requires. Citizens must understand and support it.

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Teaching What Self-Government Requires

Teaching American History

Many students enter high school government classes knowing very little about the way the American constitutional system really works. If given only a textbook account of American government, they leave the course still unaware of what self-government requires. Citizens must understand and support it.

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

ED Surge

The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school.

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4QM & Civics: Question Two Helps Civic Discourse

4QM Teaching

The Four Question Method wasn’t explicitly designed to teach civics, but we think it does a really good job of it. helps students to develop a critical civic disposition: listening to people who we expect to disagree with. The post 4QM & Civics: Question Two Helps Civic Discourse appeared first on 4QM Teaching.

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How to improve schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to students

The Hechinger Report

A survey of over 20,000 students conducted May through June found that only 39 percent of students said they learned a lot every day while their school building was closed. Summer break gave school leaders time to reflect on the lessons of the spring and create more effective reopening plans for the fall. It’s due on this day.’”.

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Without local school boards, parents in poor communities lose their vote

The Hechinger Report

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools. It suffocates the civic impulse. More than 5.6