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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

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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.

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OPINION: How top charter schools became an ‘afterthought’ in one state

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history standards as well. Massachussets public charter schools are the best in the country by measures that include dramatically outperforming the districts from which their students come. Related: COLUMN: Lessons from Boston: “no excuses” charter schools kept boosting student test scores after expansion.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

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Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Nationally, controversy over opening a charter school is nothing new. You know how Ms.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

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It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. The school’s website promised a “rigorous education experience” delivered by highly qualified teachers. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. At Stride Inc.,

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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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OPINION: How do we ensure that charter schools don’t exacerbate segregation?

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schools are becoming more segregated , many of which have more to do with community histories and residential patterns than they do with the schools themselves. The truth is that charter schools hold tremendous, untapped potential to serve as engines of diversity and inclusion. help to end school segregation?

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These Schools Are Banding Together to Make Better Use of AI in Education

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One student is working on a chatbot that better curates movie and television show recommendations based on a viewers recent watch history. DENVER In Zach Kennellys senior civics class, students are building custom chatbots with artificial intelligence. could do with the emerging technology.

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