(NAME-MCE) Henry Lewis Gates working on 'ancestry-based' curriculum

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_Henry Lewis Gates working on 'ancestry-based'  curriculum
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(http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0015e6ykFym2lntfOik9ok6UH0wLMnU8Xo98MKlELsQ4-tDZmpovJMJhgM3FPJxiEeKfamtY2Om_5Y_JRqPrah_KgmrLpdWgunCLslM_LvlS0nfrih7_5xa7KXIlJZyrf
gDHlLC5Q1776MNiMjd5mx1wF2lD5MtJcLd) In the wake of his highly acclaimed PBS 
series  "African American Lives," which traced the ancestry of 19 famous 
African  Americans using genealogical research and DNA science, Harvard professor  
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is working with other educators to create what he  
calls an "ancestry-based" curriculum to teach history and science to  
African-American students in grades K-12. In a conversation with Learning  First 
Alliance's Public School Insights blog, Gates notes that half the  African-American 
students in the United States are failing to graduate  from high school. To help 
them become more engaged, he has been working on  a six-week history unit in 
which kids will interview parents,  grandparents, great-grandparents, and 
great-great-grandparents --  collecting family stories along with census 
information, tax records, and  estate records. Gates says that if you "went into an 
inner-city school and  said, 'We're going to drag you into historical archives 
about the Civil  War,' or the Great Depression, or the Great Migration, kids 
would say,  'Get out of town.' But if we said, 'We're going to trace your family  
through those periods and to those periods,' my goodness, who wouldn't be  
interested in that?" When students reach the Civil War period, adds Gates,  they 
can be taught DNA analysis in a science class so they can continue to  trace 
genealogy after the paper trail ends.
Read more at  _http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/?storyId=22061_ 
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