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Education in Indian Country: Running in Place

December 6, 2013/

High school dropout – Unemployed – Dead before 50.

The grim statistical categories of the nation’s Indian Country are well known.

Like many Native American students, Legend Tell Tobacco, a 10-year-old on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge reservation, must outrun the odds against his educational success.

Article by Lesli A. Maxwell

Full Story: http://www.edweek.org/ew/projects/2013/native-american-education/running-in-place.html

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