scholarly journals Examining College Readiness among Latinx and Native American Students: Education as a Civil Right in the case of Martínez v. State of New Mexico

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Frances Contreras
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
School Districts ◽  
College Readiness ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Curricular Resources

This article examines college readiness indicators among Latina/o/x student and Native American students in New Mexico public schools. This analysis, used in the successful Martínez v. New Mexico (2018) case, highlights the disparate levels of access to curricular resources across 15 school districts in New Mexico. Utilizing secondary data from several sources, a story of uneven access and inequity in New Mexico’s in public schools is conveyed.

Referral, Assessment, and Placement Practices Used in Rural School Districts with Native American Students in Special Education

1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hal L. Gritzmacher ◽  
Sharon C. Gritzmacher
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Native American ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Special Education Teachers ◽  
Cultural Bias ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Education Directors

Considerable information is available regarding the cultural bias inherent in assessment instruments and the disproportionately high placement of minority students within special education classrooms. However, little research is available regarding specific practices used in areas that have high minority representation. Because of these issues, a survey was developed to investigate the referral, assessment, and placement practices used with rural Native American students in special education. Twenty-five northern Minnesota school districts serving populations of Native American students that exceeded the state average were included in the study. Special education directors, Indian education directors, and selected special education teachers from these districts were surveyed. Their satisfaction with referral, assessment, and placement practices used with Native American students was compared, and specific information about those practices was used in an effort to determine best practices. While the scope of this survey was small, the issues raised have direct implications for all rural special education teachers in districts with high minority populations.

scholarly journals Evaluation of a health sciences internship for Latino and Native American library students

2017 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla Keselman, PhD, MA ◽  
Sanjana Quasem, BS ◽  
Janice E. Kelly, MLS ◽  
Gale A. Dutcher, MS, MLS, AHIP
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Library ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
American Students

Purpose: This paper presents a qualitative evaluation of a graduate-level internship for Latino and Native American library science students or students who are interested in serving those populations.Methods: The authors analyzed semi-structured interviews with thirteen internship program graduates or participants.Results: The analysis suggests that the program increased participants’ interest in health sciences librarianship and led to improved career opportunities, both in health sciences libraries and other libraries with health information programming. It also highlights specific factors that are likely to contribute to the strength of career pipeline programs aiming to bring Latino and Native American students and students who are interested in serving those communities into health librarianship.Conclusions: Exposing graduate-level interns to a broad range of health sciences librarianship tasks, including outreach to Latino and Native American communities and formal mentorship, is likely to maximize interns’ interests in both health sciences librarianship and service to these communities.

Boarding School Poetry, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and the Demands of Americanization Poetics and Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-143
Author(s):  
Cristina Stanciu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
Original Poetry ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Carlisle Indian Industrial School ◽  
Industrial School

This chapter focuses on the under-examined corpus of Carlisle poetry, viewing it as a vital archive for theorizing the role of the American Indian intellectual tradition in negotiating Americanization discourses at the turn of the twentieth century. Materials published in newspapers and magazines at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania (1879–1918) include “Carlisle poetry,” which encompasses original poetry by Native American students, reprints of poems by Indian authors, poems by school personnel, and poems by well-known American authors. This poetry, along with the letters and articles published in Carlisle newspapers and magazines, is complicit with the ideological underpinnings of the institution’s ambitious goals of “making” Indian students into Americans, even as elements of this literature critique the Americanization that Carlisle boarding school demanded of its students.

What Is It Like to Be a Minority Student at a Predominantly White Institution?

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-209
Author(s):  
Lucila T. Rudge
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Campus Climate ◽  
Minority Student ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Predominantly White Institution ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
White Institution

This study examines the differences in experiences and perceptions of campus climate of 38 minority students enrolled in a predominantly white institution (PWI). African American students, Native American students, gender and sexually diverse students, students with disabilities, Latinx students, and international students participated in the study. About half of the participants reported negative experiences with racism and discrimination on campus whereas the other half reported the opposite. Attribution to discrimination theory informed the theoretical framework of this study and the data analysis. Policy recommendations to improve the climate of diversity on university campus are provided.

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