Community Engagement Cultures Tradition 
ED Surge
JUNE 23, 2023
What sports didn’t offer us was the opportunity to develop awareness and appreciation for our cultural identity. When I was nine years old, my mother enrolled my brother and me in folklorico — a traditional cultural dance that emphasizes Mexican folk culture — at our local recreation center. At first, I was annoyed.
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. There was nothing like this.
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ED Surge
MAY 5, 2023
With enrollment in traditional teacher education programs declining nationwide in the past few years, it is drying up at an alarming rate. As the nation grapples with the profound effects these challenges have on school communities, the term “ learning loss ” has made its way into the spotlight. That is not easily replaced.
ED Surge
MARCH 13, 2024
Our most recent cohort of fellows included educators across a variety of grades and content areas, including a high school principal, an elementary school paraprofessional, a math and computer science teacher, and a school and community engagement manager, to name a few.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 31, 2024
Of 100 urban universities surveyed by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, three-quarters included public service as part of their missions. The ‘town-gown’ dynamic,” said Dombrowski, a cultural anthropologist. We have names for it, right?
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Anne Henderson, National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement. Out-of-school factors weigh heavily on student success, studies show, and research indicates family engagement can lead to higher grades and test scores, improved attendance and better behavior. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 27, 2021
For example, PeerForward trains peer leaders to build a college-going culture in low-income high schools. Union Capital Boston (UCB) , a nonprofit working across low- and middle-income neighborhoods in Boston, is seeing positive gains among younger and older learners alike via its community engagement program.
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