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A 4 page overview of the many factors affecting the education of these people and the hope that they may someday achieve educational equity with Americans as a whole. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Ojibway, however, are not newcomers to adversity. Indeed, they have endured many problems as a people yet they continue to persist. Education has proven to be one
of their most useful tools in this struggle. Unfortunately, the Ojibway still have a long ways to go in terms of achieving true educational equity. Because of the historic
insistence of the US government and society in general on lumping all Native Americans into one cultural category, finding educational data that is solely specific to the Ojibway is a
difficult task. Fortunately, the 2000 Census did list the Ojibway separately (actually under Chippewa, an alternative name for the group that is found on most government records such as
the US Census). The Ojibway or Chippewa often live alongside the general population of non-Natives but they sometimes reside on reservations, of which there are several across the country.
While there are many generalities available about this cultural group, specific data such as SAT grades are not available. Never-the-less, much can be discerned about how the Ojibway
are still behind educationally when compared to the general American population. Native Americans as a whole, in fact, are behind the general population in terms of educational equity.
At the same time, however, they continue to make progress. In the last decade of the twentieth century the percentage of Native Americans that had graduated from high
school increased from 66 percent to almost 71 percent (Babco, 2005). This means that more Native Americans will be eligible to attend college than ever before. A 71
percent graduation rate pales in its promise, however, when we realize that the general white population has an 85 percent graduation rate, blacks 80 percent and Asians almost 88 percent
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