Charter School Civics Library 
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.
Digital Promise
MAY 28, 2019
This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The civic curriculum for young children usually doesn’t expand beyond “do not talk to strangers,” writes Harvard professor Danielle Allen in her book Talking to Strangers. Read the original version here. Democracy in action.
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Related: A padlocked drinking fountain, tree stump seats and a caution-taped library: See how the coronavirus has transformed schools. Camille Fei, a junior at Philip Simmons High School in Charleston, South Carolina, hopes to start an equity club this year to address the lack of antiracism education at her school.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 23, 2017
It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed. “And
Doing Social Studies
APRIL 13, 2020
This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. I was able to locate Topeka’s “shut down” order through the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 19, 2017
Just as it’s easier for students to learn French by speaking it in France, we need civics, literature and science to be practiced in communities rocked by nonsensical violence. We must create opportunities to practice what students learn in schools. Education takes away the oxygen that allows the fire of violence to burn.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 22, 2016
Many institutions provide legal and medical clinics and intervene to improve their local public schools. Rutgers University hosts a branch of the county public library. Harris reached out, and today Widener runs a charter school for local children, offers free health and physical therapy clinics and is helping restore a museum. “I
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