Show 74 Excerpt - Studying AK Native Culture in Rural Alaska
ONE OF THIS week's guests, Ben Chavis, thinks tribes are crazy to let public schools take over the teaching of culture. But in plenty of Alaska school districts, there is a concerted effort to integrate the cultural and academic curriculum.
In rural Alaska, one of the big questions about education is how to engage kids, how to make the academics they learn in school seem relevant to their life outside of school.
KTD contributor Jessica Cochran learned about two efforts – one private school and one public school district – who are working to do just that.
Links: Nikaitchuat Ilisagviat in Kotzebue; North Slope Borough School District's Iñupiaq Education Department.
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