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Extractions: Canku Ota (Many Paths) An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America August 10, 2002 - Issue 67 Native's Making the Grade Wisconsin's first public school was opened in 1828 by a Stockbridge-Munsee Indian named Electa Quinney, who brought the New England concept of a free school with her when the government moved her Mohican tribe from New York to Wisconsin. Quinney taught in a one-room school in Kaukauna where Indian and white students, most of them poor, could learn together. It was a strong start, but two centuries later, Wisconsin's 12,311 American Indian students lag behind their white classmates by nearly every measure: Just 73 percent of Indian ninth-graders graduate four years later, compared with 94 percent of white students. More than 16 percent of Indian high school students will be held back a grade, compared with less than 5 percent of white students. The cumulative grade point average of Indian students in the Madison schools is 1.92, about a C-, compared to 2.88 or about a B-, for white students.
Extractions: Search: News Indian Gaming In The Hoop Home News Headlines printer friendly version BIA student struggles familiar ground for Anderson Thursday, March 18, 2004 Bureau of Indian Affairs head Dave Anderson is making his first official visits to some of the schools his agency oversees this week in hopes of spreading a positive message to Native students. The visits are familiar territory for the new assistant secretary, who founded organization dedicated to helping Native youth develop leadership skills. "I want to impress upon them what I have learned: that positive thinking and health life choices can empower one to build a life based on hope for a better future," he said yesterday after his first meeting. Yesterday, Anderson went to the Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, California, an off-reservation boarding school with an enrollment of 643 students. Today, he is headed to the Chemawa Indian School in Oregon, another off-reservation boarding school with an enrollment of 318 in grades 9 through 12. The visits were timed with an education meeting that took place in San Diego but they come as the BIA is under intense scrutiny for the death of a student at Chemawa. Cindy Gilbert Sohappy, 16, died of alcohol poisoning after being placed in a holding cell by school staff. The FBI is investigating and members of Congress are trying to determine whether BIA policies played a role.
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Extractions: By John Derby, Ph.D. The 1969 Kennedy Report revealed lack of parental involvement as one of the contributing factors of the failure of schools (U.S. Senate, 1969). Recent studies indicate that lack of parental involvement continues to be a serious problem in the education of American Indian/Alaska Native youth (National Center for Education Statistics, 1997). The percentage of school principals considering the lack of parental involvement a serious problem was: Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)/tribal schools Low enrollment public schools (Less than 1/4 Indian) Two federal programs that require parent committee involvement include the Johnson O'Malley Program (JOM) for BIA/tribal schools and the Title IX Program (Indian Education) for both public and BIA/tribal schools. This provision is extremely important if both BIA and public schools are to achieve stated program goals and objectives. According to Butterfield and Pepper (1992) a distinction can be drawn between parental involvement and parental support. Parental involvement includes parents actually participating in school life in supportive advisory and decision-making roles. Parental support means encouraging children to value education and to achieve. All schools need both parental involvement and support, but parental support has the greatest impact on the achievement, behavior, and attitudes of students. Particularly when children are at a young age, there is plenty of evidence to suggest parents have the most influence on their children.
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