Anishinabe Academy in Minneapolis: Can culturally-specific education affect massive attendance, achievement gaps? (fwd link)

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Anishinabe Academy in Minneapolis: Can culturally-specific education
affect massive attendance, achievement gaps?

BY SHEILA REGAN, TC DAILY PLANET
October 16, 2012

Deanna StandingCloud, a parent coordinator with the Minneapolis Public
Schools, said that getting parents involved at Anishinabe Academy, a
school focused on using Native language and culture to support
academics, can be tough. Sometimes, parents ask not to meet at the
school, due to mistrust of schools and institutions in general.
“There’s not a sense that the school belongs to us,” she said. That’s
in addition to other factors such as parents being really busy, and
other issues like transportation.

The distrust of schools, and perhaps the feeling that traditional
school settings don’t understand or value the unique identity of
Native students are reasons some parents choose to send their children
to Anishinabe Academy.

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