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Why are Native Students Being Left Behind?
The role of Native American teachers and administrators working in reservation schools has received little attention from scholars. Utilizing numerous interviews and extensive fieldwork, Terry Huffman shows how they define their roles and judge their achievements. He examines the ways they address the complex issues of cultural identity that affect their students and thems The role of Native American teachers and administrators working in reservation schools has received little attention from scholars. He examines the ways they address the complex issues of cultural identity that affect their students and themselves and how they cope with the pressures of teaching disadvantaged students while meeting the requirements for reservation schools.
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Personal accounts from the educators enrich the discussion. Their candid comments about their choice of profession; their position as teachers, role models, and social service agents; and the sometimes harsh realities of reservation life offer unique insight into the challenges and rewards of providing an education to Native American students. Huffman also considers the changing role of Native educators as reservation schools prepare their students for the increasing complexities of modern life and society while still transmitting traditional culture.
He shows that Native American educators meet daunting challenges with enduring optimism and persistence.
The insights these educators offer can serve those in other communities where students navigate a difficult path out of discrimination and poverty. Hardcover , pages.
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Native children have been miseducated for generations under deliberately repressive federal policy, and all children in public schools are miseducated in U. This is especially painful for urban Native students unable to benefit from strong cultural ties to their extended family and culture.
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Culturally insensitive and incompetent educators continue to be a problem. They mostly drop out between the 7th and 12th grades. This is even more complicated when disabilities are involved. The following year we enrolled him at another elementary school in the same school district. He continued having problems at the new school, however, the new school took a real interest in making school a positive experience for Andy.
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He is [still] attending the same school and is doing extremely well. Later on, we learned that the old school had been rejecting open-enrollment students with learning or emotional disabilities but accepting their non-disabled siblings. He examines the ways they address the complex issues of cultural identity that affect their students and themselves and how they cope with the pressures of teaching disadvantaged students while meeting the requirements for reservation schools.
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