D.C. K-12 social studies standards updated for the first time since 2006

by Rashida Sherie Anderson-Abdullah | Oct 19, 2022 | Education, Featured

WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 committee met for the final time before the midterm elections last Thursday to present new evidence about the fragility of American democracy and detail how close the country came to a constitutional crisis that day. This comes at a time...

Leaders call for more private sector investment in HBCUs

by Rashida Sherie Anderson-Abdullah | Sep 29, 2022 | Education

WASHINGTON — Historically Black colleges and universities are drivers of upward mobility for not just their students but also the communities where they are located.  After the racial reckoning of 2020 prompted by the murder of George Floyd, millions of dollars were...

Bison Pastrami, Anyone? Preschool Assistant Ensures Kids Get to Know Indigenous Foods

by Ariel Gans and Katherine Huggins | May 24, 2022 | Education, Featured, Urban Indian Healthcare

MINNEAPOLIS — Bison pastrami is not typical school lunch fare, but it’s a crowd favorite at a preschool in Minneapolis. Fawn Youngbear-Tibbetts — the seemingly always on-the-go coordinator of Indigenous foods at the Wicoie Nandagikendan Early Childhood Urban Immersion...

Abolitionist Teaching Network supports education activists

by Quinn Clark | Mar 18, 2022 | Education

Angela Harris is a first-grade teacher at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, a public Black immersion school in Milwaukee, and one of the first six activists in residence for the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN). Harris said her activism, which has...

We the People: Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was an oratory study, but it also relays important messages for the next generation

by Quinn Clark | Feb 17, 2022 | Education

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Name one. When Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his...

State museum deems majority of its Native American artifacts ‘culturally unidentifiable’

by Ariel Gans | Feb 16, 2022 | Education, Featured

More than 30 years after Congress passed a law requiring museums to return all things removed from Native American graves to descendants of those buried, the New York State Museum has returned only 29 percent of its collection of Native American ancestors and funerary...