The National Center for Education
Statistics recently released its National Indian Education Study 2011, which tracks
trends in American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) educational performance. Schoolchildren in grades 4 and 8 across
America take the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and their scores
highlight the growing disparity in performance between AIAN and non-AIAN
children. While reading scores
from 2005 to 2011 remained largely unchanged (AIAN students still lag behind
non-AIAN in reading scores, however), the gap in scores on the mathematics portion
of the test continues to widen. In
2011, 4th grade AIAN students scored 16 points lower than non-AIAN
students, compared to 12 points lower in 2005. 8th grade AIAN students scored 19 points less
than non-AIAN students, a gap that has increased 4 points since 2005. The study points to several factors
that may influence these children’s educational performance. 83% of AIAN 8th graders
have a computer at home, compared to 93% of non-AIAN 8th grade
students, and only 50% of AIAN 8th graders have over 25 books at
home, 13 percentage points lower than the average non-AIAN 8th grade
student.
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