Native Americans in the School System

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 evaluates historical, ethnographic, and quantitative data to determine the causes of these educational failures, and places this data in an economic, political, and cultural context. She shows that the rate of failure in this community is the result of conflicting approaches to socializing youth, the struggle between 'native capital' and 'human capital' development systems. With high rates of unemployment, poverty, and school dropouts, the Northern Cheyenne reservation provides some important lessons as Native Americans pursue greater educational success. This volume will be of use to policy makers, instructors of comparative education, Native American studies, sociology and anthropology.

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By Carol J. Ward

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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