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...highly personal eight-day encounter with American Indians in the southwestern corner of the state. As he has for the past decade, in Journeys into American Indian Territory programs, Vetter will "bombard" participants with insightful interactions so they will learn about the culture of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Wichita, Caddo, Delaware, Cheyenne and Arapaho people of this region. (This program costs $895 for adults and half as much for children...
Late last week a similar case in Shreveport, Louisiana, went against the abstinence-only movement when a district judge ruled that a prochastity text called "Sex Respect" was biased and inaccurate and ordered it pulled from the Caddo Parish junior high schools. The court is scheduled to rule this week on the fate of the abstinence-only text still being used in the high schools...
...subject: the Declaration of Independence. The scene: a seventh-grade history classroom at Caddo Middle Magnet School in Shreveport, La. The teacher: a substitute who wrote his name, "Mr. Bennett," in big letters on the blackboard. His teaching method: Socratic...
...Said Chris Johnson, 12: "He really told it to us." Kathy Elliott, who normally teaches the seventh-grade class at the Caddo school, commented, "I didn't think he would be that good, but he really impressed me. He was down-to-earth and had a fantastic sense of humor." Principal Lel McCullough liked the way Bennett kept his students' attention from wandering. Said she: "I'd hire...
Phil Cross, a member of the Caddo tribe and executive director of the United Indian Planners Association said yesterday afternoon past attempts at Indian economic development had resulted in "a pretty sorry situation," adding that government aid programs often lacked the emphasis on investment needed for development...