What if students had the option of experiencing learning not in a classroom, but in a diverse array of public institutions like the Smithsonian, NIH, and NASA?
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ALT Text: Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Join us June 26–July 1, 2024. National Mall, Washington, D.C. Under the white text, a photo of two Indigenous people dancing, with colorful ribbon skirts in motion.
![A woman stands with her body facing away from the camera staring up at an engraving on the ceiling in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Her proper right arm is rested on a glass railing. The gold quote reads, ["THE GREAT FORCE OF HISTORY COMES FROM THE FACT THAT WE CARRY IT WITHIN US, ARE UNCONSCIOUSLY CONTROLLED BY IT...HISTORY IS LITERALLY PRESENT IN ALL WE DO. - JAMES BALDWIN"]](/pic/orig/media%2FF553Mu5WUAALkUU.jpg)
ALT A woman stands with her body facing away from the camera staring up at an engraving on the ceiling in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Her proper right arm is rested on a glass railing. The gold quote reads, ["THE GREAT FORCE OF HISTORY COMES FROM THE FACT THAT WE CARRY IT WITHIN US, ARE UNCONSCIOUSLY CONTROLLED BY IT...HISTORY IS LITERALLY PRESENT IN ALL WE DO. - JAMES BALDWIN"]
![A photo of a man standing in a white button up shirt with his hands folded in front of him, staring at a point facing away from the camera inside of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. He is clutching his phone in one hand and behind him is a painted plywood mural from the Resurrection City encampment that took place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 1968. In the upper left corner painted text reads: ["BROTHERS / AND / SISTERS / HUNGER / IS REAL [underlined] / AND YOU BETTER / BELIEVE IT! DIG."]](/pic/orig/media%2FF553N9CXgAAgXjt.jpg)
ALT A photo of a man standing in a white button up shirt with his hands folded in front of him, staring at a point facing away from the camera inside of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. He is clutching his phone in one hand and behind him is a painted plywood mural from the Resurrection City encampment that took place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 1968. In the upper left corner painted text reads: ["BROTHERS / AND / SISTERS / HUNGER / IS REAL [underlined] / AND YOU BETTER / BELIEVE IT! DIG."]
ALT A photo of a young woman in white overalls, a blue shirt, and a pink bucket hat with her face obscured standing in front of the red, black and green African American flag by David Hammons on view in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
ALT A black and white photo taken from the top of Lincoln Memorial shows the March on Washington crowd on August 28, 1963. The crowd on the National Mall is filled out in front of the Memorial and on either side of the Reflecting Pool.
ALT A black and white photo of the March on Washington crowd standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. Some participants are crowded around the edge of the Reflecting Pool.
ALT A black and white photo of March on Washington participants sitting on the end of the Reflecting Pool with their feet submerged on August 28, 1963. The dark water has ripples across the surface. Behind the first row of people sitting with their feet submerged are a crowd of others, mostly sitting facing the opposite direction.
