Once a federal boarding school, local tribes now set the curriculum at the Santa Fe Indian School

Once designed to strip Native students of culture, this school now safeguards it

For more than a century, federal boarding schools worked to forcibly assimilate Native American children into white culture. Here's how one Santa Fe school has worked to change that legacy.

‘Not just coloring tipis,’ experts debate quality of Indian education in Wyoming schools

As the state begins revising education standards for including tribal perspectives, culture and history, some schools question how much progress has been made in the past decade. The post ‘Not just coloring tipis,’ experts debate quality of Indian education in Wyoming schools appeared first on WyoFile .

'Informed American Patriotism': Texas Schools Bring Traditional Civics Back to the Classroom

'Informed American Patriotism': Texas Schools Bring Traditional Civics Back to the Classroom

Iowa Audit Analyzes Impact of State’s Education Savings Account Program

Nearly 79 of students who used Iowa’s funding program for K-12 private schools were “already projected” to attend private schools, according to a report released Wednesday by Iowa Auditor Rob Sand. Iowa Department of Education called the report a “policy advocacy brief” that critiqued statutory provisions of the Iowa Education Savings Account (ESA) program. Iowa’s []

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This June, the Texas State Board of Education adopted new social studies standards and a required literature reading list for its public schools. These changes follow Texas’s 2024 release of its “Bluebonnet” curriculum, a package of instructional resources for elementary school, which sparked controversy over the inclusion of Bible stories in the reading materials. Bible stories, canonical books, and “patriotic” social studies standards have each invited familiar charges of culture-war excess Read More