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Subject(s)

• Indigenous peoples—Education—Government policy—Middle West [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples—Education—Government policy—Nebraska [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—Education—Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska—Case studies [Browse]
• Santee Indian Reservation (Neb.)—Education—Government policy [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Writer of foreword

• McCarty, T. L. [Browse]

Series

• Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.) [More in this series]
• Multicultural education series

Summary note

"Discover how top-down, policy-into-practice educational mandates have adversely affected Indigenous communities in the United States' midwestern core. The author scrutinizes how leaders and intermediaries in Nebraska, involved at various tiers of policy development and reform, conceptualized and implemented school accountability policy in Indian country. In particular, Phillips explores state-directed reform efforts in a school on the Santee Sioux Reservation consistently labeled as failing and persistently experiencing intervention from outsiders presented as experts. The book interrogates who gets to define educational quality, who counts as an expert on improving schools, and what improvement actually looks like. Additionally, the text highlights the way local educators and members of the community employed everyday tactics and incognito acts of improvement to reshape school turnaround efforts. Readers will see what is possible for education policy done with--rather than to--Native communities and schools, with lessons that have relevance beyond the midwestern states."--Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword: toward a praxis of Indigenous education sovereignty
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• So what? lessons learned and why they matter
• Welcome to flyover country
• A broader story than the village of Santee
• Policy crafted on the legislative floor
• Nebraska's AQuESTT: bolder, broader, better
• Run by outsiders
• Compliance, kind of
• Wait, what just happened?
• Afterword.

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ISBN

• 9780807769560 (paperback)
• 0807769568 (paperback)
• 9780807769577 (hardcover)
• 0807769576 (hardcover)

OCLC

1392340017

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