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Native American Education: No Child Left Behind and the Achievement Gap

Native American Education: No Child Left Behind and the Achievement Gap. Bob Mattila. What is No Child Left Behind?.

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Native American Education: No Child Left Behind and the Achievement Gap

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  1. Native American Education: No Child Left Behind and the Achievement Gap Bob Mattila

  2. What is No Child Left Behind? • No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is an act that was passed in 2002 with the goal of - "An act to close the achievement gapwith accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind.“ • Achievement Gap- the observed disparity on a number of educational measures between the performance of groups of students, especially groups defined by gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.

  3. How does NCLB affect teaching students? (General) • Mandatory Reading and Math testing each year between 3rd and 8th grade. • 1 mandatory Reading and Math test in high school • State Issued Standards – No National Standard • Requires that all students meet 100% test scores by the year 2014. • Requires “Adequate Yearly Progress” gains by each subset of students (ie. White, American Indian, Free/Reduced Lunch, Special Education, etc.)

  4. NCLB and Native American Youth • According to the National Indian Education Association, NCLB is contributing to a “crisis in Indian education.” mainly because NCLB does not “respond to needs of Native communities.” • Some of the reasons listed for the crisis are: • NCLB is too rigid, despite it’s claim of “choice.” • Lack of resources to meet the demands and AYP • The successes that are gained clearly diminish Native Languages and cultures. • Children internalize being marked as “failures” in a flawed system • The law does not meet the needs of individualized teaching • Music, Art, Social Studies, and Language classes that are critical for many Native American cultures are completely diminished or dissolved to attempt to meet the demands of NCLB.

  5. NCLB and the Native American Achievement Gap • According to The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 81 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native eighth graders read below grade level, compared to 62 percent of white eighth graders. • 74 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native twelfth graders read below grade level, compared to 57 percent of white twelfth graders. • Indian fourth-graders scored 11 points lower in math than their peers in 2007. By eighth grade, the gap in public schools grew to 17 points. • Seventy percent of Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) administered schools failed to satisfy No Child Left Behind Adequate Yearly Progress requirements in 2005. • The Bureau of Indian Education funds 183 schools for 42,000 American Indian and Alaska Native children on 64 reservations in 23 states. More than 90 percent of the Indian student population attends public schools.

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