Sankofa Shule was a charter school in Lansing, Michigan.
[6]: 559 The physical education curricula included dance styles from the African continent.
[7] “Sankofa Shule … produced low-income African American students who could read two to four levels above grade level, who did algebra and calculus in grade school and who out scored the Lansing School District and the state of Michigan on state the accountability test (MEAP) in 2000 in mathematics and in writing.
The school was called ‘an educational powerhouse’ by U.S. News & World Report in the April 27, 1998 issue.” Lisa Delpit, Multiplication is for white people raising expectations for other people’s children, 2012 The school used an Afrocentric curriculum.
The school had foreign language classes for Swahili, French, Japanese, and Spanish.