Grant to improve Native Hawaiians' education

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Friday, 05 August 2011 09:13

The Hawaiian Hall at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum contains the world's largest collection of Polynesian artifacts. The museum has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Image by Stan Shebs. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

HONOLULU (AP) – A Honolulu museum has been awarded a federal grant to improve middle school education for Native Hawaiian students.

Bishop Museum said in a news release Monday the $369,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education is to allow the museum to partner with the Polynesian Voyaging Society and the University of Hawaii College of Education.

The project is to create a series of educational experiences for Native Hawaiian middle school students that combine western science with cultural knowledge and practice.

The project is expected to create lessons plans, an online learning center, teacher workshops and other resources.

Museum President and CEO Blair Collins says the project is to impact more than 5,000 Native Hawaiian middle school students.

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