Posted on 08/28/2017 9:23:18 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Those who wish to aid Native Americans may want to think "outside the box," or at least outside the public school system.
"Charter schools have played a growing role in Native peoples' efforts to gain control over their children's education," Tiffany Lee of the University of New Mexico and Teresa L. McCarty of UCLA wrote in a paper which appeared in the book, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies. They looked at one in particular--the Native American Community Academy (NACA) in Albequerque.
"At NACA, students take the state-required courses in math, English reading and writing, science and social studies," Lee and McCarty report. "Teachers and administrators create a curriculum that integrates Native perspectives through these and other courses while attending to state standards."
"The Navajo Government course, for example, meets social studies requirements, and the Native literature course enhances reading and writing skills while embedding Native perspectives."
And the result? "School data indicate that NACA is making progress according to dominant society standards: in 2011-2012, 8th graders demonstrated a 21% increase in their math scores, a 20% increase in their reading scores, and a 9 % increase in their writing scores from the previous year," Lee and McCarty write. "The student retention rate is above 95%, and students in the first graduating class of 2012 were admitted into a multitude of universities."
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail mal.kline@academia.org.
Are Native Americans incapable of helping themselves? Why do they always have to rely on White people?
Get rid of the Reservations.
They are concentration camps that vote Democrat.
Only the beggar Indians vote Dem. Look at Oklahoma, Indian Territory. Solid TRUMP red!
That’s one reason I loved the casinos so much, and so-called progressives hated them. Indians took control of their own lives and communities through them.
We have Obamacare because the Governor of Montana kept the polls at the reservations open long enough for them to manufacture enough ballots to elect a Democrat Senator.
Remember who put these people on reservations. It is a shame they have been hood winked into the democrat politics.
There are NO native Americans. Everybody here had ancestors who came from somewhere else. We ALL are immigrants. Some of us just got here earlier than others.
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