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Category: Language

  • Guest Post from TEDNA Board Member Kerry Venegas on California AB 163 and Teacher Credentialling

    Kerry Venegas is the Director of the Tribal Education Department for the Hoopa Valley Tribe, and is providing an update on California AB 163, which expands Native teaching credential authorization for Tribes that passed as AB 544 in 2009. AB 163 is still in the legislative process, but doesn’t seem to have any major roadblocks. Even…

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  • ICT: Juneau Schools Swap Out Controversial History Books for Natives Who Actually Lived It

    Here from Indian Country Today, and an excerpt: Four books dealing with Native history that were supposed to be introduced during the spring semester have been taken off the elementary-school curriculum in Juneau in the wake of concerns about their accuracy and sensitivity. The books, published by McGraw-Hill Education, were removed after a number of people…

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  • Ed Week: Cultural Diversity a Critical Consideration for Native Students

    Here, and an excerpt: What’s a research concern that we still need answered about early-childhood education? What follows is Susan C. Faircloth’s response to this question. See more responses. Susan C. Faircloth Research suggests that the quality of early-childhood education and care plays a critical role in helping to shape children’s school readiness, as well…

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  • Alaska Native News: Native Americans Work to Save Language

    An excerpt: FORT YATES, NORTH DAKOTA—One evening a week, young and old gather in Michael Moore’s classroom in Fort Yates, North Dakota, to learn Lakota — the language of their Sioux tribal ancestors. For many of the students here at Sitting Bull College, it’s a tongue their great grandparents spoke fluently at home. But that…

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  • 2014 Annual Meeting and Forum Materials

    Our annual meeting and forum was held on October 15, 2014 in Anchorage, Alaska. Included here are materials discussed and presentations given. TEDNA Select Bills 113th Congress Presentations: ACT: Multiple Dimensions of Readiness- Kevin Houchin and Stacey Ellmore Washington State-Tribal Education Compacts- Audrey Gugel for Senator John McCoy Native Village of Kotzebue -Tribal Education Programs…

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  • S. Rept. 113-266 – Amendment to Native American Programs Act of 1974

    I thought I posted this earlier, but it looks like I did not.  Here is S. Rep. 113-266, in support of S. 2299, which would amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to reauthorize a provision to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages. The purpose of S. 2299 is to provide additional…

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