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Do American Indian Students Perform Better When They Have American Indian Teachers?

HAYS-LODGE POLE, Montana—When Aloha Shortman asked her sixth-graders to find Italy on a world map during a social studies lesson last August, they couldn’t do it. One student’s finger landed on Brazil. Others grew bored and restless. Shortman quickly shifted gears, searching for a way to make a lesson on the Roman Republic relevant to a group of American Indian students in a remote Montana community.

“What about the Law of Twelve Tables?” she asked, referring to the foundational Roman legislation. “What does this remind you of, in our culture? What do we have that’s like it?”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/schooled/2015/08/19/hays_lodge_pole_school_district_an_indian_reservation_s_schools_are_finding.html

 

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