Equity for Alaska natives: Can high-stakes testing bridge the chasm between ideals and realities?

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 499-550

  Jones, Ken ^a   Ongtooguk, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0039700339     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170208300707     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Katie Pesznecker, "Exit Tests Reflect Racial Gap," Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2001 ,p. A-1.
2. Stephen W. Haycox, "Sheldon Jackson in Historical Perspective: Alaska Native Schools and Mission Contracts, 1885-1894," Pacific Historian, vol. 38, no. 1, 1982, pp. 18-28.
3. G. Williamson McDiarmid, "Governing Schools in Culturally Different Communities: Effects of Decentralization in Rural Alaska" (Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, 1984).
4. Lisa Delpit, Other Peoples Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom (New York: New Press, 1995), p. 96.
5. Danielle Wolffe, "Exit Exam Unfair to Rural Students," Tundra Times (Bethel, Alaska), 19 April 2001, p. 1.
6. Rosemary Shinahara, "Rural Reading Plight: Children Face a Cultural Handicap on School Exit Exams," Anchorage Daily News, 9 February 2001, p. A-1.
7. Personal communication, 8 June 2001.