Category: Announcement
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ED Week – Education in Indian Country: Obstacles and Opportunity
Here is an in depth series on Native Education. An excerpt: On most measures of educational success, Native American students trail every other racial and ethnic subgroup of students. To explore the reasons why, Education Week sent a writer, a photographer, and a videographer to American Indian reservations in South Dakota and California earlier this fall. Their work…
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WashPo – Native Americans’ unemployment has been above 10 percent for five years now
Here is the article with an interactive map showing the numbers in each state. These troubling numbers roughly correlate to the State of Native Education and shows the importance of education and the emphasis that needs to be placed on it.
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Yakama Nation and state reach sensible accord on fuel taxes
From the Yakima Herald Republic, here. For tribes that don’t already incorporate an education tax, they should consider an education code that incorporates a tax where the revenues are earmarked for education purposes. While this is not practical for all tribes, many could utilize such a code as a way to fund their Tribal Education…
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ICT – Lessons of Our Land Curriculum Launched During Heritage Month
Here. An excerpt: Learning about Native history and culture doesn’t need to be relegated to one month of the year. Though the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) thought Native American Heritage Month would be a good time to release its Native American land curriculum website for pre-K and K-12 classrooms. “The launch of this website in November coincides…
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Honoring our Children: Culturally Appropriate Approaches for Teaching Indigenous Students (Dedicated to the Memory of Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, 1934-2011)
Here. An excerpt from the introduction: This is the second monograph published by Northern Arizona University emphasizing culture-based education, which seeks to accomplish the melding of Indigenous and Western knowledge and pedagogy to improve school experiences for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. The first book, Honoring Our Heritage: Culturally Appropriate Approaches for Teaching Indigenous Students…
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The Hill – House lines up year-end blitz
Here. The Budget and sequestration are among the topics that will be discussed. An excerpt: 3) Budget conference The 29-member budget conference committee, led by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), has the highest profile and the lowest expectations. The panel emerged from the deal that re-opened the government and lifted the…