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Why It’s Vital for Native Students to Learn With a Culturally Relevant Lens

October 5, 2016

Via: MindShift

Sometimes Armando Ortiz looks back at his life and can hardly believe where he is today. He grew up in White Center, just south of Seattle, and at a pretty early age got involved in gang life and hanging out with people who were getting into trouble. He says much of his early educational life felt like he was being passed along from one grade to the next, no one paying much attention to whether he was learning or not.

By eighth grade he felt behind in every subject except math, which came easily to him, and he was struggling with his work. Life outside of school called to him and homework usually took a place on the back burner.

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