The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2024
Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006. It’s a traditionally oral language, and speakers frown on any written form.
ED Surge
MAY 20, 2024
That’s partly why he’s interested in classical learning, a form of education that often emphasizes the “classics” of Western heritage. McCoy says he prizes them primarily for instilling moral and civic virtues in students. Civic learning is just too important an issue to abandon because of “bad actors,” McCoy says.
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 7, 2022
history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? The report, released in May during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, surveyed over 5,000 Americans from diverse backgrounds and includes findings about Asian American stereotypes, visibility and acceptance.
C3 Teachers
MARCH 30, 2022
Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. In addition, the civic summit afforded me professional learning and the opportunity to collaborate with UGRR educational specialists. Image via Step Out Buffalo.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Civic engagement is at the foundation of the ExCITe Center’s work, and Kim is constantly brokering partnerships with individual schools, teachers, and community groups; the EdClusters work is a natural extension. YoungMoo Kim Director, ExCITe Center at Drexel University.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 22, 2021
My former high school students in rural Arkansas now teach at the schools they attended during their childhoods, in the same political conditions of Blackness in which I taught them in my civics class in 2014, as they tried to process the Ferguson, Missouri, police killing of Mike Brown , a man they had never met but who looked like them.
Teaching American History
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.” Now she sees herself preparing students for lives of civic engagement.
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