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Category: Discussion

  • Indian school whisperer: Dave Archambault, Sr. at TEDx

    Here is a wonderful presentation by Dave Archambault, Sr. He discusses Native education and self development in Native children.

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  • New Mexico Indian Education Summit – Nov. 21-22

    The New Mexico Public Education Department, Indian Education Division, and IAIA’s Center for Lifelong Education (“CLE”) will host the New Mexico Indian Education Summit and State-Tribal Government-to-Government Meeting on November 21 – 22 in the CLE. Thursday, November 21:  Friday, November 22:       8 a.m. – 12 p.m. Government-to-Government Meeting 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 Concurrent Sessions – Sponsored Lunch New Mexico Tribal & Pueblo Leaders Common…

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  • Harkin, Senate Democrats Introduce Legislation to Expand Access to High-Quality Early Learning Programs

    Here is the news release. A snippet: The early childhood education proposal is a 10-year initiative to expand and improve early learning opportunities for children across the birth to age 5 continuum. The bill would fund preschool for 4-year old children from families earning below 200% of the federal poverty level, and encourage states to spend…

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  • Hearing on Sequestration – 11/14

    Tomorrow, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will hold a hearing on the impact of sequestration on Indian Country.   WASHINGTON D.C. – On Thursday, November 14 at 2:30 PM, Chairwoman Maria Cantwell (D-WA) will hold a U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs oversight hearing on the impact of sequestration on Indian Country and the ongoing effect…

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  • Wash. Po. – U.S. students show incremental progress on national test

    Here.  An excerpt: The nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders made incremental progress on math and reading tests administered earlier this year by the federal government, according to data released Thursday. The results detail performance in 2013 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, that U.S. students have taken every two years since the early 1990s. The…

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  • Education Cuts Hang in Balance as Budget Haggling Begins

    Here is the discussion from ED Week.  An excerpt: Education advocates are keeping close tabs on a congressional conference committee charged with coming up with a budget solution in hopes that lawmakers may stop a series of blunt, across-the-board cuts known as sequestration. The cuts, which have already eliminated thousands of Head Start slots and caused…

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