It Takes a Native Community: Educators Reform Schools in an Era of Standards

Autor/in	Boyer, Paul
Titel	It Takes a Native Community: Educators Reform Schools in an Era of Standards
Quelle	In: Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 17 (2006) 4, S.14-19 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-5505
Schlagwörter	Student Teachers; American Indians; American Indian Education; Educational Change; Rural Areas; Program Descriptions; Mathematics Instruction; Science Instruction; Poverty; Educational Quality; Standards; Culturally Relevant Education; Montana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; American Indian; Indianer; Bildungsreform; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Armut; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Standard
Abstract	The problems many Indian children experience in schools-- low academic achievement, absenteeism, high drop-out rates-- cannot be solved by any one individual. Instead, it requires action by the entire school system and, especially, greater leadership by Indians themselves. Tribes must become partners in the process of school reform and become more involved in the work of their schools. It is known that small changes to the curriculum do not get to the root of the problem. But what, exactly, should be done? What does it mean to pursue "systemic" reform? In this paper the author describes the work of educators participating in the National Science Foundation's decade-old Rural Systemic Initiative. Focusing on regions of "persistent rural poverty," the NSF supports a diverse range of programs working to promote fundamental change in how math and science education is taught in some of the country's poorest, most isolated schools. Rural Systemic Initiative leaders, while differing in their approaches to reform, all agree that a quality education must reflect the values of tribal peoples and must ultimately serve to strengthen whole tribal communities. (Contains photos.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10