Funding sought to preserve native languages (fwd link)

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Funding sought to preserve native languages

By Jennifer Toomer-Cook and Deborah Bulkeley
Deseret Morning News
Published: Monday, Feb. 4, 2008 12:05 a.m. MST

Teaching American Indian languages in schools is a tool that educators say has
been tested as a way of raising the achievement bar.

To that end, the State Board of Education is seeking $275,000 to preserve and
revitalize Utah's indigenous languages to help narrow achievement gaps.

Utah's CRT state test results show a 45 percentage point difference between the
performance of Navajo and Caucasian students on language arts, 48 percentage
points on math and 57 percentage points on science, according to data state
associate superintendent Brenda Hales presented to the Education Appropriations
Committee Thursday.

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