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Native Americans in the School System [electronic resource] : Family, Community, and Academic Achievement.

Summary:

Carol Ward examines persistent dropout rates among Native American youth, which remain high despite overall increases in Native adult education attainment in the last twenty years. Focusing on the experiences of the Northern Cheyenne nation, she analyses historical, ethnographic, and quantitative data. This volume will be of use to policy makers, instructors of comparative education, Native American studies, sociology, and anthropology.

Record details

ISBN: 9780759114739 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0759114730 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (281 pages).
Publisher: Lanham : AltaMira Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; CHAPTER ONE American Indian High School Completion: A Contradiction in Need of Explanation; CHAPTER TWO Contributions of Schooling and Community Research to an Ecological Approach to the Study of School Outcomes; CHAPTER THREE The Northern Cheyenne Reservation: The Setting for an Analysis of High School Completion; CHAPTER FOUR Case Study Approach and Descriptive Data; CHAPTER FIVE Evaluating Ecological Models of School Performance: The Relative Effects of Individual, Family, School, and Community Influences.

CHAPTER SIX Evaluation of School Dropout ModelsCHAPTER SEVEN Evaluating Models of School Performance and Completion for Indian and White Students at Colstrip High School; CHAPTER EIGHT Conclusion: Native Capital and Northern Cheyenne Dropout Rates; References; Index; About the Author.

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