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Download full textRegion 13 Comprehensive Center, 2022
In the past year, the Region 15 Comprehensive Center (R15CC), Region 13 Comprehensive Center (R13CC), and Regional Educational Laboratory West (REL West) partnered to convene directors of Indian education at state education agencies (SEAs) to learn together, explore challenges and opportunities of practice, and advance equity for Native students.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Indigenous Populations, American Indian Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkBates, Rodger A. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2012
Distance education strategies for remotely deployed, highly mobile, or institutionalized populations are reviewed and critiqued. Specifically, asynchronous, offline responses for special military units, Native Americans on remote reservations, prison populations and other geographically, temporally or technologically isolated niche populations are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Distance Education, Correctional Institutions
Nelson, Steven; Greenough, Richard; Sage, Nicole – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2009
Focusing on student proficiency in reading and math from 2003-04 to 2006-07, this report compares gaps in performance on state achievement tests between grade 8 American Indian and Alaska Native students and all other grade 8 students in 26 states serving large populations of American Indian and Alaska Native students. In response to a request by…
Descriptors: American Indians, Alaska Natives, Students, Grade 8
Boulard, Garry – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
Some education officials with expertise in American Indian scholarship programs say a lack of available money and information continue to limit American Indian enrollment in higher education. Pamela Silas, director of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, says they help more than 100 students a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Scholarships, American Indians, College Students
Mayhew, Jack; And Others – 1996
Responding to a shortage of special education teachers with multicultural training, the University of Utah designed a series of American Indian specialization courses for teachers, leading to a master's degree in professional practice. Essential course components include cultural awareness, nonbiased assessment, specialized curriculum and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Disabilities, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education
LLamas, Vicente J. – 1999
The Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico-Rural Systemic Initiative (UCAN-RSI) supports systemic improvement in science, technology, and mathematics education for all rural students in the four states, focusing on schools that enroll large numbers of American Indian and Hispanic students. This document contains a report on UCAN's 4th year (September…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Annual Reports, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Indian Affiliates Inc., Orem, UT. – 1983
The report describes the initial design and planning phase of a 3-phase project to adapt, develop, and evaluate computer-aided instructional materials in elementary education basics (specifically word recognition, reading comprehension, and mathematics) for Alaska Native and American Indian students. Section 1 provides background information about…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Basic Skills
LLamas, Vicente J. – 1998
Since September 1995, the Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico-Rural Systemic Initiative (UCAN-RSI) has promoted systemic reform to improve science, technology, and mathematics education for all rural students in its states. Initially, UCAN targeted 159,000 students in over 430 rural, primarily American Indian or Hispanic, communities. These…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, American Indian Education, Annual Reports
Peer reviewedClemmer, Janice White – Wicazo Sa Review, 1986
Utah has missed an opportunity to foster, support, or lead out with exemplary Native American Studies programs within its higher education network. Considering the intertwined religious and political roots of the state establishment, the overall commitment to the American Indians as a whole has not been a major political issue. Brigham Young…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Studies, American Indians, Church Related Colleges
Garman, Keats; Jack, Donald – 1979
Rapidly increasing Navajo enrollment in San Juan County, Utah, public schools in the 1960's forced the rural school district to improve educational services to a sizable Navajo population while attempting to preserve local control in the face of changing Indian self-determination policy. The district implemented a Curriculum Development Center, a…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education, Community Involvement
Turner, Allen C. – 1984
The Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah Restoration Act (1980) restored federal recognition of the tribe after a quarter century of ambiguous political status, and resulted in significant improvements of educational status of tribal members and intensification of the political presence of Southern Paiutes. Following the Paiute Indian Termination Act…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Education, Community Leaders, Cultural Influences
