Heritage Library Tradition 
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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.
Cult of Pedagogy
MAY 12, 2024
It’s still just not even close to what the traditional public schools go through. And so if you have an existing traditional public school and you lose a class of children, probably it’s not going to close the school, but it does create a financial challenge because you’re losing some of those dollars.
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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 12, 2022
I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties. The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C.
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.”
Cult of Pedagogy
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools. She is the co-author, along with Valerie Tagoe, of the 2022 book Liven Up Your Library: Design Engaging and Inclusive Programs for Tweens and Teens ( Amazon | Bookshop ). It’s a win-win-win-win-win.”
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 16, 2017
In rural Rajasthan, construction will soon be underway for a new all-girls school that will showcase local goods and heritage handiwork in this former medieval trading center, while combining education and economic development for local women. Small project, ‘global impact’. A small project can have a global impact,’’ Daube said. With over 1.3
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs. In the school’s first year, every child had library every day.
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