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Navajo Education Struggles Highlight Education Change
A Navajo College president and boarding school students illustrate the nation’s Indian education challenges. Language barriers, funding gaps, and cultural clashes persist across 18 states, with calls for Indian control of schooling and new ESL programs using Navajo to teach English.
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William 3. Waugh
Ariz
Ned Natathli
Petiis
Rosemary Bennaly
Fort Wingate
Ella Mae Johnson
Rosemary Jimmy
America
Arizona
New Mexico
Utah
West Virginia
Congress
Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIA
Robert A. Roessel Jr
Charm Cellor
Navajo Community College
Roessel
Rough Rock Demonstration School
Natathii
Alaska
Florida
Washington
U.S. Office of Education
Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory
Albuquerque
N.M