This page lists recent ERIC Digests related to Indian education from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education. They include such topics as student assessment, planning, antibias curriculum and instruction, drop-out rates, and a survey of schools. For a complete list of ERIC Digests that are available on the web, see the ERIC Digest database at the Department of Education web site.
ERIC InfoGuide: Education of American Indians and Alaska Natives (May 1995)
From the web site, "This InfoGuide addresses the instructional, curricular, and administrative provisions--and related circumstances, including political and social contexts--that apply to how American Indians and Alaska Natives are educated." More ERIC InfoGuides...
ERIC Digest: American Indian/Alaskan Native Learning Styles: Research and Practice
From the web site, "Educators of American Indian and Alaskan Native students are concerned for a growing number of students who do not find school a meaningful place. These students are becoming school weary.' Studies of learning style among Native students provide some clues about this phenomenon, and this Digest presents a brief review of that literature. It includes a definition, specific examples, cautions about overgeneralizing learning style research, and suggestions for classroom practice." Author: Swisher, Karen; 1991.
ERIC Digest: Standardized Testing of American Indian Students
From the web site, "The testing of many American Indian children using exams developed for the majority American society represents a case of cross-cultural testing which is likely to produce invalid results in the form of underestimation of student performance. This digest discusses limitations of the use of standardized tests with many American Indian students and delineates sources and consequences of invalid test results ensuing from the administration of standardized tests to unacculturated American Indian students." Authors: Brescia, William; Fortune, Jim C.; March 1988.
Indian Education Resources (NWREL)
Use this page to find information on Indian Education. From the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory, part of a network of regional education laboratories sponsored by the US Department of Education.
Four Directions Project Resource Cache
From the web site, "4Directions is a project administered by the Laguna Department of Education which focuses on integrating Native American culture and technology into education in a way that enables students to maintain and learn their heritage while taking full advantage of their future. ...The 4Directions Educational Resource Library holds and categorizes curriculum materials that have been contributed by educators and students."
ERIC/EECE Resource List: Native Americans
Here's a list of recommended books for kids, as well as professional resources for teachers, related to Native Americans. From the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education. From the web site, "This list was prepared by Debbie Reese, a Pueblo Indian, who studies and works in the field of early childhood education."
Online Book: Teaching and Learning With Native Americans
Subtitle: A Handbook for Non-Native American Adult Educators. Compiled by Marilou Schultz and Miriam Kroeger from the Four Winds Walk in Balance on Mother Earth Curriculum Guide for the Arizona Adult Literacy and Technology Resource Center, Inc., June 1996. From the Western/Pacific Literacy Network web site.
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