Report: Less than 50% of Native Americans graduate high school
I am sitting here in awe of new research coming out of UCLA that finds less than 50 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native students from the Pacific and Northwestern regions of the United States graduate high school.
I’ve been reporting on Indian education issues for about a decade now. We always knew the numbers were bad. But quantifiable data involving Indian populations is always hard to come by. This new data is just amazing.
The report, by the institution’s Civil Rights Project, is titled “The Dropout/Graduation Crisis among American Indians and Alaska Native Students: Failure to Respond Places the Future of Native People At Risk.”
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Report at: http://tinyurl.com/ydej3b8