ADVANCING EXCELLENCE FOR OUR NATIVE STUDENTS
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NIEA2012 registration information is coming in the next couple of weeks. Look out here for more announcements.
NIEA Executive Director Colin Kippen testifies before the U.S. Department of Education's National Advisory Council on Indian Education (NACIE) about the need to fully fund and implement the Obama administration's Native education reform plan contained in Executive Order 13592. Learn more.
Want to get a better understanding of the Obama administration's FY 2013 budget and its possible effects on education in Indian country and Native communities? Learn more from our
brief analysis.
NIEA requests House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) to meet with Native education advocates and gain the perspectives of Native communities on the need to improve education for our children. Read more.
NIEA issues letters to chairmen and ranking members on the U.S.
Senate
and
House
Appropriations committees advocating for the preserving of funding for Native education programs, and continuing support for efforts to advance excellent, culturally-based education for our American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Students.
Learn more.
Learn more about NIEA's work -- and get a look at our developing look -- in our flagship brief on advocacy, research, and capacity-building.
Check out this presentation on dropout and graduation rates for Native students from our own Dr. Dawn Mackety.
NIEA issues a letter to Native Hawaiian advocates declaring that it will work with congressional leaders -- including
U.S. Senators Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka, and Representatives Mazie Hirono and Colleen Hanabusa -- to protect Title VII funding for Native Hawaiian Education Act programs. Learn more
.
NIEA congratulates the Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair for 10 years of helping to preserve Native language and culture. The event, co-founded by NIEA President Quinton Roman Nose, brings more than 600 students together at the University of Oklahoma to demonstrate their mastery of their Native languages.
Check out
Education Week's coverage of NIEA's advocacy for greater Native participation in the No Child Left Behind Act/Elementary and Secondary Act waiver process. Read NIEA's
letter
to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and learn more from our
Advocacy Wire.
Congratulations to NIEA Board Member Dr. Charlotte Davidson for earning her doctorate from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Native collegians! Apply for NIEA's John C. Rouillard and Alice Tonemah Memorial Scholarship. Learn more here.
Read this week's
NIEA Capacity-Building Alert to learn about grants and opportunities for advancing excellence for our Native students. And sign up for it.
Check out this month's
NIEA Advocacy Wire to know more about advancing federal and state education policy.
Learn more about what NIEA is doing for Native Hawaiian students in our latest
Special Advocacy Brief.
NIEA
issues a letter
to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan expressing concern about the Obama administration’s process for granting states waivers from Adequately Yearly Progress and other provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act/Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Learn more.
Help keep our Native students on the path to high school graduation and college completion. Sign up for the 2012
National Forum on Dropout Prevention for Native and Tribal Communities
co-sponsored by NIEA, the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network, and the National Johnson O'Malley Association.
Thank you for offering your recommendations and advice to the U.S. Department of Education so it can develop the State-Tribal Education Partnership pilot grant competition. More than 44 NIEA members and advocates offered their input. Read about the effort in theNIEA Capacity-Building Alert
and check out the
advice and recommendations
.
Join
NIEA's Director of Research, Data and Policy, Dr. Dawn Mackety, for aconference call
with
North Central Comprehensive Center
on the impact of federal policymaking in advancing Native education.
Read theInstitute of Education Sciences study
on partnerships between Tribal Education Departments and school districts co-authored by Dr. Dawn Mackety, NIEA Director of Research, Data and Policy. Also check out
Education Week
's coverage of the study.
Learn more about how the 2012 Legislative Summit is building momentum for improving Native education in this month's NIEA Advocacy Wire.
Find out more about NIEA's2012 Legislative Agenda.
Watch NIEA President Quinton Roman Nose discuss
the importance of bringing excellent, culturally-based education -- and announces the 2012 NIEA Legislative Agenda -- during the2012 State of Native Education Address.
We're NIEA
The premiere organization advocating for educational excellence, opportunity, and equity for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students, the mission of the National Indian Education Association (NIEA) is to support traditional Native cultures and values; to enable Native learners to become contributing members of their communities; to promote Native control of educational institutions; and to improve educational opportunities and resources for American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians throughout the United States.a membership-based organization committed to increasing educational excellence, opportunities and resources for American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students while protecting our cultural and linguistic traditions. (More)
Our strategic priorities
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Support traditional Native language and cultures in the classroom
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Empower teachers to be more effective in their classrooms
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Encourage Tribal and Native control of educational institutions
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Increase the use of data and information relevant to Native students and communities