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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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

The Hechinger Report

Campus culture is a major factor in student success, research has found. Ashtabula regularly has more than a dozen tutors available, and can increase the number depending on need, said Carol Jones, coordinator of academic services. And she helped launch the school’s first Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations this school year. “We

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Diverse future of the Midwest has already arrived in one Iowan school

The Hechinger Report

No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Even with plentiful low-skill jobs and with some immigrants running small businesses or finding better paid jobs as translators or tutors, poverty is still a reality among recent arrivals. Both of the elder Valladolids are from Mexico.

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A Conversation About School Choice

Cult of Pedagogy

There’s also this rise of ESAs (education savings accounts) where you could pay for online classes or tutoring or tuition. Places like the Heritage Foundation have literally published papers saying, you know, we should use culture war issues to win legislatively on choice, that we should attack public education.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. He also pitched a new, five-year strategic direction that will emphasize tribal sovereignty and cultural education both promises the bureau made in its reform agenda more than a decade ago.

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

The Hechinger Report

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S.

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