The Journal of American Indian Education http://jaie.asu.edu/ has issued a special edition that features papers delivered at a National Colloquium focused on meeting the needs of Native American students. The special edition will be in two parts with Part I already published Volume 45, Number 2 2006 Part II will follow as Volume 45 Number 3 2006. The colloquium was help at Santa Fe Indian School in Santa Fe New Mexico March 16-18, 2006. Part I presents information on innovative programs already being implemented with data that are currently available on their progress. These papers include an interesting review of the history of American Indian education and description of the evolution of four stages of research on culture and education by Roland Tharp, the Director of the Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence. David Beaulieu 2005 President of NIEA and Director of the Center for Indian Education at ASU presents a paper describing a categorizing all know Culturally Based education program for Native American in the United States and concludes that there are very few such programs actually being offered a fact that has occurred under the effects of NCLB. There are program descriptions of the principal Native Language immersion schools in the Untied States each presented by the leadership of these pioneering efforts. These include papers related to Diné Language Immersion School at Window Rock Nawahi Hawaiian Laboratory School in Hawaii, The Piegan Institute Blackfeet Immersion School and Yupik Language Immersion School and other Yupik Language efforts at the Lower Kuskokwim School District Alaska. A subscription to the Journal costs $20.00 and one can get the two volume special edition for $15.00 with out a subscription.
This special education follows a special edition that focused exclusively on Case Study focused on Yupik Math by Jerry Lipka. The one volume edition of the case studies is $10.00.
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