Susan Ledlow Vol. In light of the current anthropological debate on minority student schooling, this paper examined one major issue of concern in American Indian education, namely the high dropout rate for American Indian high school students. In this article it is hypothesized that much of the literature on American Indian dropouts treat the significance of cultural discontinuity between home and school as a basis for explaining the high dropout rate with little or no explicit research to prove the hypothesis. Jon Reyhner Vol. Recommendations are made for each of the seven areas as to how schools can be changed to improve the quality of Indian education so that more Indian students will graduate from high school and more will go on to college.
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