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How Heavy Metal Fuels Indigenous Revival in Patagonia

Sapiens

Because of the lyrics, because of the rebellion, because of the power I love this group because they are a clear example of the fusion of metal with ancestral heritage. Partway through our conversation on Indigenous history, music, and language, Calfunao lit up when he discovered that we were both metalheads. And it never ends.

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OPINION: Growing up in the South, I had no chance to learn my own heritage and culture

The Hechinger Report

I grew up and attended schools in the South in an area known as the Black Belt , a name given to the region because of its large Black population and black soil. I never took a course in African American history during that time, the late 1980s and early 90s, despite being enveloped in Blackness in my neighborhoods, churches and schools.

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. My desire to know exploded.

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OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools

The Hechinger Report

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. There are signs of progress. Nationally, in 2021, U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter. There was nothing like this.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? You know how Ms.