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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. government orders to go to an internment camp, as they were called then, saying it was unconstitutional.

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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. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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OPINION: Should plaintiffs in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about school choice be careful what they wish for?

The Hechinger Report

For the perspective of the Heritage Foundation’s Jonathan Butcher, click here. When states choose to operate a program that involves public (or publicly governed) financing of private service providers, can the state choose to exclude religious providers? The Hechinger Report asked several experts to weigh in.

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Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)

Anthropology for Beginners

In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. The primary aim of the policy was to correct several mishaps of the earlier policies centering on the Tribal population of the country.

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To Create Safer Spaces for Students, Teachers of Color Must Reckon With Our Settler Identity

ED Surge

As a teacher in Hawaiʻi, I am keenly aware and reminded of my identity as a "local" teacher, one whose family heritage traces back generations in the same community. The Settler Identity There are many teachers of color that can trace their arrivals - whether voluntarily or forced - back to lands occupied by the United States government.

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On the Tracks to Translating Indigenous Knowledge

Sapiens

3 in 1874 with the Canadian government. Later the government removed 20,000 Indigenous children from their homes in what was called the ’60s Scoop and placed them in non-Indigenous households with a similar goal of assimilation. The Nation understood the Treaty as existing between the U.K.’s s Queen and their People for all time.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

ED Surge

A former superintendent of nearby Spring Branch Independent School District, he is now a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Houston. And doing worksheets in the library isn’t a reward for high-achievers, she added. Duncan Klussmann agreed with Yarborough’s assessment. They're not learning.

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