education

Institute Of American Indian Arts To Launch MFA Program

Christine Trudeau — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:59:08 +0000

The Institute of American Indian Arts will launch its first graduate program this summer. The Masters of Fine Arts degree in creative writing will be the first program of it’s kind at any tribal college in the nation.

The two-year program will focus heavily on writing in a number of genres, and the Institute of American Indian Arts, or IAIA, says there are nearly 30 candidates admitted for the program, which officially opens at the end of July.

Dropping Out is a Drag

LeeMerrill — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:45:00 +0000

10/27 at 11am: Statistics show that Native American students drop out of school at twice the rate of their non-Native peers. Whether they live on the reservation or off, Native American students are choosing to leave school because their needs are not being met by the schools they attend or because of difficulties in their personal lives at home.

Tribal Leaders and Education

LeeMerrill — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:37:00 +0000

Wed. 10/26 at 11a: The National Indian Education Association (NIEA) is holding its annual convention in Albuquerque, NM. One of the key questions at the conference is, “are tribal governments and tribal leaders ready to support the education of their tribal members?”

Single-Sex Education: Fix or Folly?

Sidsel Overgaard — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:16:44 +0000

Listen

In the last eight years the number of U.S. public schools offering all-boys or all-girls classes has skyrocketed from about 11 to well over 500. So far, very few of those are in New Mexico. Supporters say, with boys falling behind, single sex education is an issue of social justice. Others say it's nothing short of illegal.