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Direct linkAlliance for Excellent Education, 2009
In today's economy, employers increasingly demand that workers have a high school diploma, yet America's graduation rates are unacceptably low, particularly among poor and minority students. Nationally, only about 70 percent of students graduate from high school on time with a regular diploma; for African American and Hispanic students, this…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Secondary Education, High School Students, High Schools
Download full textKaplan, Robert B. – 1991
Various groups of Native American peoples and other non-English speakers are required to become literate in English and are promised that literacy will solve their social, economic, and political problems. Yet, having achieved some level of English literacy, many of these people find that not much has changed. The educational system attributes…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Bilingual Education, Educational Policy
Jacobs, Robert E. – 1974
This paper examines the concept of equal educational opportunity (EEO) in some detail, addressing the following questions, both generally and with special reference to Alaska: Is the EEO concept valid? If so, is there sufficient basis for government intervention? If so, what types of interventions are most/least likely to be successful? What types…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment, Educational Needs
Hecht, Kathryn A. – 1976
Historical documents and interview data are compiled to develop a chronology of critical events used in studying the impact of the Applications Technology Satellite educational demonstration (ATS-6) in Alaska. This method of evaluation was implemented as a parallel approach to that of gathering data in the villages from Native informants and from…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Communications Satellites, Cross Cultural Studies, Data Collection
Madden, Marilou – 1974
The Alaska State Department of Education undertook a review of research and literature to determine the optimal starting age or ages for school attendance. This review was occasioned by two events: the proliferation of early childhood education programs in the State and the growing body of research which suggests possible adverse effects of early…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Age, Attendance, Early Childhood Education
Joshee, Reva; Johnson, Lauri – University of British Columbia Press, 2007
"Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States" uses a dialogical approach to examine responses to increasing cultural and racial diversity in both countries. It compares and contrasts foundational myths and highlights the sociopolitical contexts that affect the conditions of citizenship, access to education, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, Comparative Education, Citizenship
