Five Key Strategies for Ensuring Accurate and Culturally Relevant Native Student Data

Five Key Strategies for Ensuring Accurate and Culturally Relevant Native Student Data

Historical approaches to Native student data have major implications for students, Tribes, states “Whereas, Indigenous students, educators, families, and communities are a valuable and integral part of the American educational system, existing educational data sources were not made for, or by them. In fact, accurate Indigenous student data largely remains inaccessible to Tribes themselves, and inaccurately reflects Native students, their streng…