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...reservation high school in 1969, the year that Edward Kennedy, in a report by the Senate special subcommittee on Indian education, declared that the "first American" had become the "last American" in terms of employment and education. One-third of all adult Navajos neither wrote nor spoke English. Dropout rates were twice the national average, and because of the systematic denigration of their culture, Indian children, more than any other minority group, believed themselves to be below average in intelligence. Explains N.C.C. President Thomas Atcitty: "For too long we were told our culture was inferior and should be forgotten...
...some of which lead to Associate of Arts or Applied Science degrees. Twenty-two students from last year's graduating class have gone on from the two-year Navajo school to four-year colleges or universities. Edison Hatathli, 18, president of the student body, was a high school dropout. "When I came here, I was lost," he says. "Now I want to study art at Berkeley and then return to serve my people." Other students can get certificates in vocational studies that include auto mechanics, nursing and drafting...
...read What Really Happened without trying to figure out the answer to the puzzle. What did really happen to those wealthy adolescents that turned them into a massive, collective dropout, that took them off the technocratic track? Some suggestions leap into the mind: dependence upon doting parents, whose goal was to give their golden children everything they hadn't had themselves; disillusionment with the values of a system that forced them to worry about the draft after raising them to think that other people did the dirty work; realization that they couldn't meet the expectations of the adult population...
Herbert Williams, an eleventh-grade dropout from Little Rock, Ark., schools, went to Chicago in 1946 to seek his fortune. Over the next 28 years, he worked as a bus dispatcher, bus driver and truck driver. But he never felt comfortable living in Chicago. He resented the discrimination that for years barred him from North Side nightclubs. He found the people unfriendly and the pace too fast. Says he: "It is a big rat race, all hustle and bustle...
...that the quality of education in their schools is unchanged, 15% say it has improved, and 10% note a deterioration. In Williamsburg County, S.C., and Berkeley, achievement-test scores have risen since desegregation. Other "beneficial byproducts" of desegregation often include, the report says, better instructional programs, a reduction in dropout rates and increased participation of parents in school affairs. At the commission's hearing in Boston; Jane Margulis testified that it was "very frightening for me to think that I would be putting [my children] on a bus to the black community, which I knew nothing about...