Northwest Arctic officials move ahead on new school for climate-threatened village
The Northwest Arctic Borough Assembly held an unprecedented meeting 2,000 miles away in Seattle last month, where it narrowly shot
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Alaska’s heroin problem brings together state, local and federal leaders in search of a solution
BETHEL — Alaska’s heroin problem is significant, growing and, authorities say, in need of attention from all quarters to get under
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New tool tranlsates Inuit syllabics into Latin alphabet
A Canadian technology company has created a Google extension that will allow people to convert Inuit language syllabics into Roman
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Oil & gas industry messages Alaska students
With talk of taxes on the rise and Alaska struggling with massive deficits, an oil and gas trade association representing some
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Sweden to expand teaching of minority languages
The Swedish National Agency for Education, or Skolverket, is to expand the teaching of Sweden’s five national minority languages (Yiddish, Finnish,
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University of Alaska plans big push to increase, retain homegrown teachers
For decades, teacher Arnold Marks has called the small Interior Alaska village of Tanana, about 130 air miles west of
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Finland appreciated in Karelia despite sanctions, interviews show
The tightening sanctions measures affecting Russian-Finnish relations have had minimal impact on Karelian Russians, according to interviews with citizens of
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Teachers in remote northern communities face higher workloads says Canadian study
A new report on teachers’ workloads across Canada’s North says those working at rural or remote schools are at the
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Education spending in Canada’s North out of hand: prof
A retired university professor from Canada’s University of Manitoba says education spending in the North has gotten out of hand.
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Arctic Canadian town hopes radar gun will stop speeding snowmobilers
Kugluktuk, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, is cracking down on speeding snowmobilers after complaints from residents
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Tardy students? Arctic Canadian town turns to emergency alarm
Normally used to alert the hamlet to an emergency, the siren in Kugluktuk, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory
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Yukon, Canada program incorporates trapping, aboriginal culture into curriculum
Trapping, hiking and cooking over a fire. These aren’t the kinds of activities most Canadian students encounter as part of
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Auditor General: Nunavut, Canada won’t meet bilingual education goals
When a made-in-Nunavut Education Act was passed by the legislative assembly in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut in 2008,
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Resolute, Canada on alert for polar bears
Students at Qarmartalik School in Resolute, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, were told to stay home
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Southeast Alaska school district shifts to 4-day school week
Ask most Alaska or Outside grade-school students if they would choose modestly longer school days in exchange for perpetual three-day
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