NCLB and Indian Education-Special Edition of Journal of American Indian Education

The Journal of American Indian Education has issued a Special Edition VOLUME 47, ISSUE 1 - 2008 focused on The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and it relationship to the education of American Indians Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. The guest editor of the edition i s Dr.Teresa L. McCarty.

Dr. McCarty is the Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University. She has worked in the field of American Indian/Indigenous education for more than 25 years. Her recent books include A Place To Be Navajo — Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self- Determination in Indigenous Schooling (Erlbaum, 2002), and “To Remain
an Indian:” Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education (with K. T. Lomawaima; Teachers College Press, 2006).

The Special Edition which is titled "American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Education in the Era of Standardization and NCLB" features the following articles

American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian
Education in the Era of Standardization and NCLB — An
Introduction Teresa L. McCarty

Native American Education Research and Policy
Development in an Era of No Child Left Behind: Native
Language and Culture during the Administrations of
Presidents Clinton and Bush David Beaulieu

Language, Sovereignty, Cultural Contestation, and
American Indian Schools: No Child Left Behind and a
Navajo Test Case Teresa Winstead, Adrea Lawrence, Edward J.
Brantmeier, and Christopher F. Frey

Perspectives on Change: A Continued Struggle for
Academic Success and Cultural Relevancy at an American
Indian School in the Midst of No Child Left Behind
Robert Patrick

Reading First, Literacy, and American Indian/Alaska Native
Students Jon Reyhner and Denny S. Hurtado

The Imperative of Literacy Motivation When Native
Children Are Being Left Behind Linda Miller Cleary

“Because We Do Not Know Their Way”: Standardizing
Practices and Peoples through Habitus, the NCLB “Highly-
Qualified” Mandate, and PRAXIS I Examinations Sundy Watanabe

Mixed Messages: American Indian Achievement Before
and Since the Implementation of No Child Left Behind
David R. Garcia

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