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Douglas, Dorothy, Ed. – Alaska's Children, 1997
These four issues of the "Alaska's Children" provide information on the activities of the Alaska Head Start State Collaboration Project and other Head Start activities. Legal and policy changes affecting the education of young children in Alaska are also discussed. The Spring 1997 issue includes articles on brain development and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Brain, Change Strategies, Child Health
Douglas, Dorothy, Ed. – Alaska's Children, 1996
These quarterly reports for 1996 of the Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs provides information on the activities of the Alaska Head Start State Collaboration Project and other Head Start activities, as well as legal and policy changes affecting the education of young children in Alaska. The spring 1996 issue includes articles on…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Child Advocacy, Childhood Needs, Community Services
Teaching in Rural Alaska: Journal of Applied Ambiguity, 1986
As a component of the University of Alaska's Cross-Cultural Orientation Program (X-COP), this journal provides a forum for rural Alaska teachers to share experiences and ideas. Articles in this issue discuss: (1) a highly rated school in Manokotak--a Yup'ik Eskimo community that is intergrating schooling into its contemporary Yup'ik culture; (2)…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Cross Cultural Training, Elementary Secondary Education, Multicultural Education
Grubis, Steve, Ed.; Rowe, Kaye, Ed. – Teaching in Rural Alaska: Journal of Applied Ambiguity, 1984
As a component of the University of Alaska's Cross-Cultural Orientation Program (X-COP), this journal provides a forum for rural Alaska teachers to share ideas and insights. Articles in this issue discuss: (1) the inadequacies of educational research for defining the essence of effective teaching; (2) making the classroom culturally compatible…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Classroom Techniques, Cross Cultural Training, Elementary Secondary Education
Sharing Our Pathways: A Newsletter of the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative, 1999
In 1995 the National Science Foundation funded the Alaska Rural System Initiative (RSI), a joint effort of the Alaska Federation of Natives and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Among its goals, the RSI aims to increase the presence of Alaska Native knowledge and perspectives in all areas of science and education in rural Alaska, develop…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians
Dayo, Dixie Masak, Ed. – Sharing Our Pathways, 2002
This document contains the five issues of "Sharing Our Pathways" published in 2002. This newsletter of the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative (AKRSI) documents efforts to make Alaska rural education--particularly science education--more culturally relevant to Alaska Native students. Articles include "Nurturing Native Languages"…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages
Dayo, Dixie Masak, Ed. – Sharing Our Pathways, 2001
This document contains the five issues of "Sharing Our Pathways" published in 2001. This newsletter of the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative (AKRSI) documents efforts to make Alaska rural education--particularly science education--more culturally relevant to Alaska Native students. Articles include "Research and Indigenous…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages
Alaska Review of Social and Economic Conditions, 1979
To identify central problems in vocational education in Alaska, a study focused on the three sectors at the postsecondary school level: public or independent nonprofit institutions, private schools, and apprenticeship programs. Public and nonprofit institutions consider job preparation their primary goal in addition to skill upgrading and teaching…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Alaska Natives, Apprenticeships