Indian language textbook becomes part of state's education mission (fwd link)

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Indian language textbook becomes part of state's education mission

Posted: August 19, 2008
by: Rob Capriccioso

SANTA FE, N.M. - Long-talked-about efforts to infuse Native culture and language
learning in the public education system have resulted in action in New Mexico.

A textbook co-authored by Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, a Navajo professor at
Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, has been selected by the state's
education department as a high-quality resource that will soon be made
available to all school districts in the state.

State officials believe that New Mexico is the first state to adopt a Navajo
textbook for use in the American public education system.

So far, officials from 10 districts have already signed on to have teachers in
their systems use the book and its companion teaching guide. BIA schools are
also eligible to review the text and decide whether to use it starting in the
2009-10 school year.

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