Four Schools Primarily Serving Native American Children Go From "Lowest of Low" To Meeting State Standards

2003 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
State Standards ◽  
American Children

Serving Native American Children and Families

1996 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Robinson-Zañartu
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
World View ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
American People ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Traditional Language ◽  
American Children

As a group, Native American people are perhaps the least understood and most underserved populations in schools. Native American is a collective term, representing a large variety of cultures, language groups, customs, traditions, levels of acculturation, and levels of traditional language use. In the context of this variation, I raise and discuss a number of common patterns in their traditions and histories: world view and belief systems, acculturation stress, school-home discontinuity, learning styles, and communication patterns, which are useful reference points from which to develop more culturally compatible evaluation approaches. The ecosystems and dynamic/mediational approaches are suggested as promising.

The Politics of Cerebral Asymmetry and Racial Difference

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-108
Author(s):  
Michael E. Staub
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Cerebral Asymmetry ◽  
Minority Children ◽  
American Children ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Right

Split-brain theorizing became the lingua franca of the 1970s and 1980s, with the left hemisphere considered the seat of rationality and language while the right hemisphere housed intuition and creativity. Expert and popular writing on cerebral asymmetry came to be directed to society’s privileged, who were encouraged to expand their right-brain potential with yoga, transcendental meditation, and biofeedback. At the same time, a substantial part of debates among neuropsychologists and related medical, social-scientific, and educational professionals revolved around the implications of such a revaluing of right-hemispheric skills specifically for African American, Latino, and Native American children. A remarkable array of experts began to affirm the existence of racial differences in intelligence while taking up a critique that “right-brained” (and often poor and minority) children were trapped in “left-brained” schools. Declaring IQ to be an inaccurate measure, psychologist Alan S. Kaufman in 1979 developed an influential alternative assessment scale specifically to expand what counted as intelligence and to include a range of creative, nonverbal, spatial, and emotional capacities—only to find that gaps in test scores between white and nonwhite children narrowed accordingly.

scholarly journals Native American Children and Their Reports of Hope: Construct Validation of the Children’s Hope Scale

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1707-1714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna O. Shadlow ◽  
Richard E. Boles ◽  
Michael C. Roberts ◽  
Lauren Winston
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Construct Validation ◽  
American Children ◽  
Children’S Hope Scale

Antimicrobial Prophylaxis for Recurrent Acute Otitis Media

1992 ◽  
Vol 101 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack L. Paradise
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Otitis Media ◽  
Pathogenic Bacteria ◽  
Antimicrobial Prophylaxis ◽  
Acute Otitis Media ◽  
Optimal Dosage ◽  
Antimicrobial Drugs ◽  
American Children ◽  
Long Acting ◽  
Recurrent Otitis Media

Antimicrobial prophylaxis for recurrent otitis media was first reported in 1960 in an uncontrolled study using a long-acting sulfonamide in Native American children younger than 11 years of age. In subsequent controlled studies using various antimicrobial drugs (primarily aminopenicillins or sulfonamides) subjects receiving prophylaxis continued to have episodes of acute otitis media, but at rates substantially lower than those of controls. More recently, prophylaxis has appeared effective in reducing the number of acute recurrences, but not the cumulative proportion of time with middle ear effusion that was present independent of such recurrences. Although questions remain about choice of drug, optimal dosage schedules, risk of untoward drug reactions, duration of use, and the risk of encouraging the emergence of resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria, antimicrobial prophylaxis currently appears to be the most logical first approach in the management of the child with recurrent otitis media.

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