Cherokee Nation Adds Sixth Grade and iPads to Bolster Native American Education (fwd link)

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Cherokee Nation Adds Sixth Grade and iPads to Bolster Native American Education

By ICTMN Staff September 25, 2011
USA

Some changes are happening this year at the Cherokee Nation’s Sequoyah
Schools. The nation has added the sixth grade to its immersion school
and provided iPads to seventh and eighth grade classrooms to expand
they way subjects are taught.

For the first time since 1956, students attending the Cherokee
Nation’s Immersion School—part of Sequoyah’s school district—can
complete 12 consecutive years in the same school system.

The immersion style classroom started in 2001 at Cherokee Nation Head
Start. Immersion means that all classes are conducted in Cherokee; no
English is spoken or written during class time. This is an important
way for Native American students to retain their culture and language.

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