Category: Article
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Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health Announces “500 Scholars Initiative”
An excerpt: BALTIMORE – The Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health announced today it is doubling its efforts to improve American Indians’ educational and health status. On the occasion of its 25th Anniversary, the Center for American Indian Health’s 500 Scholars Initiative will raise $3 million over the next three years to promote education and training opportunities for…
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Lessons Sought on Serving Native American Students
Here, from Ed Week. An excerpt: The Council of Chief State School Officers is looking to a small-scale Montana program for help in reversing the fortunes of hundreds of thousands of American Indian children. Despite federal attempts to raise the profile of the challenges that Native American students face, they are often an afterthought, said…
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Via EdWeek.org: Schools, Government Agencies Move to Share Student Data
An excerpt: The struggle to protect students’ privacy while making use of the data collected on them in school has for years been focused on the role of outside companies. But while that debate has raged in Congress and statehouses across the country, K-12 school systems in more than a dozen cities and counties have…
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Allegations of Racism Directed at the University of Wyoming
An excerpt: The Principal of St. Stephens Indian High School is calling the University of Wyoming’s investigation into the Sept. 26 incident at the University Store involving six St. Stephens Indian High School seniors and allegations of racial profiling by UW employees “an insult to the intelligence of myself, the students and their parents, and…
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Colorado Governor Commissions Study On Indian Mascots in Public Schools
From Turtle Talk: Executive Order here. Press release here. Link to media coverage here.