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09 Aug 09

newsminer.com • Alaska museum's webcams focus on birds and bears

From their own home and laptop computers, animal lovers can watch the brown bears feast on fresh salmon at the falls. View the seabird rookery at Gull Island live via remote camera at the Pratt Museum. The SeeBird Cam is visitor-controlled and always on. BearCam is up and live from Katmai National Park. Both can also be streamed from the Pratt Museum Web site.

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30 Jul 09

newsminer.com * UAF students embed with Strykers in Iraq

Tom Hewitt and Jennifer Canfield embed wtih Strykers to learn about war reporting for UAF journalism program. They're blogging about the experience at Short Timers blog [http://shorttimers.blogspot.com/]

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13 Jul 09

newsminer.com • Legislature struggles with special session

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02 Jul 09

Democratic Strategist

The Big Article du jour is Todd Purdum's massive profile of Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair.

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Most of the buzz about the piece deals with a variety of off-the-record snarks about Palin from McCain campaign staff. Indeed, conservative columnist Bill Kristol and McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt have engaged in a public exchange of insults over alleged leaks to Purdham.

28 Jun 09

newsminer.com • Report critical of Alaska's relationship with oil industry

Taxes, royalty rates and environmental regulations in Alaska make oil and gas companies reluctant to invest in exploration and production, according to the 2009 Global Petroleum Report.

The Fraser Institute, a Canadian think-tank, issued the third-annual study on June 24.

Although nine U.S. states ranked in the top 10 among international jurisdictions studied, Alaska did not. Instead, Alaska lodged in the 78th spot. Off-shore Alaska, which is subject to federal taxes and rules, ranked 72nd.

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newsminer.com • Permanent Fund regroups

The Board of Trustees of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. recently changed how it describes and categorizes investments. It now uses an allocation that groups assets based on risk characteristics rather than by the type of investment.

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26 Jun 09

newsminer.com • Rural Alaska schools face closure over funding difficulties

FAIRBANKS — At least six schools in Interior-based school districts are in danger of closing next year because of low enrollment, according to superintendents at the Iditarod and Yukon Flats districts.

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21 Jun 09

Alaskans urge health care changes: U.S. Senate | adn.com

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newsminer.com • Friendship, strength spell survival after fall in Alaska's Chugach mountains

Almost 200 feet below the tool scratches, Nappi found his second sign of Butler:

An impact crater.

Stuck upright in the snow to either side were Butler's climbing tools, ripped from his hands as his body bounced and hurtled toward a snow-filled couloir.

How much farther Butler had fallen, Nappi could not tell. The 25-year-old climber looked down the couloir and saw nothing but hundreds of feet of snow.

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11 Jun 09

Shannyn Moore: Exxon Spill -- 20 Years of Tears

This year is different. The Supreme Court decision in June 2008 all but pardoned Exxon's negligence. The highest court in the land condoned the half-assed clean up. The RATS-Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia, (Alito recused himself, confident that Souter and Kennedy would fill the business friendly void) winked at their corporate masters as the Judas Court betrayed Justice. This year I long for the wholeness that was promised.

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09 Jun 09

newsminer.com • Muddy Waters walked into the Alaska wilderness and became lost for 67 days

FAIRBANKS -- Just call him the accidental tourist.

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NEA - Alaska Pensions Go South

Alaska's benefits used to be some of the best. Now they're among the worst. This could impact you, whether you live there or not.

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NEA - Real Challenges, Virtual Solutions in Alaska Classrooms

When the only road to school melts during the year, there has to be a backup plan for educating students. But virtual education may not provide all the answers.

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06 Jun 09

The Arctic Sounder - Inupiaq movies teach lessons, capture oral history

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Alaska ICE

Inupiaq movies teach lessons, capture oral history

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Alaska's Digital Archives : Search Results

videos of Alaska Native life

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A History of Schooling for Alaska Native People

This article documents significant historical events and trends that have helped to shape the policies and practices of education in Alaska, particularly those that have most directly impacted the schooling of Alaska Native people.

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a set of values and beliefs that includes: priority of communal and family considerations over individual considerations, a belief in sharing versus accumulating, and a respect for spirituality and an interconnectedness with the natural world
Western system does not always mesh well with the Native worldview,
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- Some schools were operated directly by the federal government while others, referred to as "contract schools," were contracted to missionary groups
- Bureau of Education schools continued to operate with the belief that
  it was important to transform American Indians and Alaska Natives into civilized
  and Christian Americans, and the best mechanism for achieving assimilation
  into American society was education
- recommendations called for a major reformation of American Indian education with Indian involvement at all levels of the educational process and with specific recommendations that education be tied to communities, day schools extended, boarding schools reformed, Indian language and culture included in the development of the curriculum
- self-determination in economic development, social services and education
- The state established the Division of State-Operated Schools (SOS) with special responsibility for rural and on-base military schools, and it created a governor's committee to again explore the merger of BIA and state schools.
- negotiations between the Alaska Territorial Department of Education and the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the transfer of federally-operated rural BIA elementary schools to the territory
- by 1954 efforts to bring the two school systems together ceased
- pressure for more local control from Alaska Native people brought legislative action again in 1975 that abolished this system and in its place set up a new form of "extraordinary units of government" (Darnell, 1979). Twenty-one separate rural school districtsãRegional Educational Attendance Areas
- State regulations provide each REAA with enough latitude to design its schooling policies and practices in ways that are appropriate for the particular region and for the cultural and linguistic group of people that it serves. Because most rural communities have little tax base to draw upon, REAA's are funded directly by the legislature,
- as a response to the developing Cold
  War, an insistence on conformity to narrowly-defined national standards became
  prevalent.
- a lawsuit was filed against the State of Alaska in 1974. The class-action suit, charging discriminatory practice on the part of the state, was filed by Alaska Legal Services, on behalf of rural secondary-aged students, for not providing local high school facilities for predominantly Native communities when it did for same-size, predominantly non-Native, communities. The Hootch family, whose daughter the suit was named after, lived in the Yup'ik
  Eskimo community of Emmonak
- The policies of the BIA and territory
  schools
  
  attended by many Alaska Native adults forbade students to speak their
  Native
  languages and did not allow for a curriculum that reflected anything Alaskan,
  
  American Indian, or Alaska Native.
- Today, nearly all Alaska students attend elementary and secondary school
  in one of three settings: (1) village schools; (2) rural regional centers
  and/or road system/marine highway schools; or (3) urban schools.
- The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 represented the first major involvement of the federal government in education for groups of children beyond American Indians and Alaska Natives.
- The inherent paradox in a system that requires the government to provide education for Native Americans while at the same time promoting self-determination has not yet been resolved.
- failure of the public schools to educate and assimilate Indian students
- it is better to talk about education than to educate
- The highly decentralized system of schools
  and districts in rural Alaska, however, is both "the good news and the bad news." Because the state's rural school system allows for significant variation in the goals and implementation plans of each region, some rural districts and their school boards will continue to work respectfully with parents, elders, Alaska Native educators, and other community members in their on-going collaborations to develop realistic approaches for assuring that their children reach high academic standardsãin culturally appropriate and meaningful ways. Other districts will continue to respond with reform efforts that are temporary in nature and that only address issues at the tip of the cross-cultural iceberg
- This Act provided "major changes in the administration of education programs by giving controlling authority to local communities"

04 Jun 09

46 States and D.C. to Pursue Common Education Standards

It's all about yardsticks

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LitSite Alaska | Cultural Heritage

Lately, especially here in Alaska, we've been putting both groups on the same playing field and saying "play ball." You wind up with the phenomenon of tackle basketball, during which each team is accusing the other of playing unfairly, incompetently, or simply stupidly. You think these people are incompetent, backward -- well, you could make a long list of negatives there, because when you're playing the game of life as you understand it and you meet these other guys who you think are playing the same game, and they're cheating -- they're knocking you over -- then you get the sense that they either don't know how or won't play fair.

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03 Jun 09

Twitter / Sarah Palin: AK monitoring NGA & CCSSO' ...

AK monitoring NGA & CCSSO's Common Core Standards dvpmt w/states.Must stabilize core before taking on new programs. http://tinyurl.com/kqougo 2:14 PM Jun 1st AKGovSarahPalin

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