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Schooling for Self-Determination: Research on the Effects of Including Native Language and Culture in the Schools. ERIC Digest.
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Lipka, Jerry – 2002
This digest briefly reviews the impacts of assimilationist education for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) and describes recent examples of successful AI/AN schools that incorporate students' native language and traditional culture into the curriculum. Beginning in the 1870s, federal policy emphasized assimilation as the goal of AI/AN…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, American Indian Education, Biculturalism