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Peer reviewedChu, Lily; Culbertson, Jeanne – Research in Rural Education, 1982
Examines educational expectations, aspirations, and anticipatory goal deflections of 73 high school sophomores and seniors with a variety of racial-ethnic backgrounds from 3 isolated rural Alaska schools. Reports significant differences between groups and schools; rural Alaskan Natives showed much lower expectations and aspirations than any other…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Aspiration, Educational Attitudes
Download full textAlaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. Office of Public Information and Publications. – 1972
Alaska has made many attempts to find methods for providing a quality education for students living in rural areas. They include regional schools, boarding dormitories, the Boarding Home Program, area and local high schools, and correspondence study. This booklet discusses the strong and weak points relative to the major financial, social, legal,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Boarding Schools, Costs, Enrollment Projections
Kleinfeld, Judith – 1972
The study explores the interpersonal tensions that develop in an exceptionally intimate and ambiguous cross-cultural relationship--that of Alaska's urban boarding home parents and the Athabascan Indian and Eskimo adolescents placed in their homes while attending urban secondary schools. Many of the students are from remote Alaskan villages which…
Descriptors: American Indians, Boarding Homes, Classification, Eskimos
BENNETT, ROBERT L.; COOMBS, L. MADISON – 1964
RURAL ALASKA IS COMPOSED OF VERY SMALL COMMUNITIES, A SITUATION WHICH COMPLICATES DEVELOPMENT OF ADEQUATE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IS PROVIDED THROUGH A LARGE NUMBER OF RELATIVELY SMALL VILLAGE SCHOOLS. ALTHOUGH SOME OF THESE SCHOOLS ARE TOO SMALL, MOST PEOPLE AGREE THAT EDUCATING THE YOUNGSTERS IN A BOARDING SCHOOL SITUATION IS…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, American Indians, Boarding Homes
Kleinfeld, Judith – 1978
Factors contributing to Native students' college success were examined in a study of 50 Native freshmen and 42 non-Native freshmen at the University of Alaska in the 1973-74 academic year. The study compared students in relation to three common explanations of college success: level of academic preparation, goal orientation, ease in the campus…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alaska Natives, American Indians, College Environment
Chu, Lily; Culbertson, Jeanne – 1982
Questionnaires were administered to 73 sophomore and senior high school students in 3 isolated rural Alaska towns (Adak, Unalaska, and Dillingham) to study the effects of socio-economic factors on rural Alaskan youth's educational aspirations and expectations. Because of a military-supported economy, Adak was a typical middle class American…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Comparative Analysis
