Carol J. Ward

Native Americans in the School System

Family, Community, and Academic Achievement

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Produktbeschreibung

Carol Ward examines persistent dropout rates among Native American youth, which remain high despite overall increases in Native adult education attainment in the last twenty years. Focusing on the experiences of the Northern Cheyenne nation, she analyses historical, ethnographic, and quantitative data. This volume will be of use to policy makers, instructors of comparative education, Native American studies, sociology, and anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780759106086
• ISBN-10: 0759106088
• Artikelnr.: 21691391

Autorenporträt

Carol Ward is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brigham Young University and was the Director of the Northern Cheyenne Dropout Research Project.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Chapter 1: American Indian High School Completion: A Contradiction in
Need of Explanation 2 Chapter 2: Contributions of Schooling and Community
Research to an Ecological Approach to the Study of School Outcomes 3
Chapter 3: The Northern Cheyenne Reservation: The Setting for an Analysis
of High School Completion 4 Chapter 4: Case Study Approach and Descriptive
Data 5 Chapter 5: Evaluating Ecological Models of School Performance: The
Relative Effects of Individual, Family, School and Community Influences 6
Chapter 6: Evaluation of School Dropout Models 7 Chapter 7: Evaluating
Models of School Performance and Completion for Indian and White Students
at Colstrip High School 8 Chapter 8: Conclusion: Native Capital and
Northern Cheyenne Dropout Rates 9 References