Steven Lotz Source 5

McCardle, Peggy D., and Virginia Wise. Berninger. Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Native American Students: Paying the Educational Debt. New York: Routledge, 2015. Print.

1.) What are some solutions to decreasing this gap between Native Americans and all other minority students?

2.) This book truly outlines how Native Americans have tried to pay the price of higher education for their children. The book tries to raise cultural awareness about Native Americans to make it easier to welcome these marginalized students into higher education. This book intends to illuminate the educational gap that exists between white college students and Native American college students.

3.) This really adds a personal experience to my research. The stories in each of these chapters provides great insight into what it is like trying to get a college education from the point of view of the Native American student. Without any schema about this race of students, this book definitely showed me the true struggle of being a minority student. It brings about the new idea of the Native American struggle of attending college.

4.)Both this source and my fourth source elaborate on how hard it is to be a Native American student and how the United States should assist these students in decreasing the education gap between the white majority and the Native American minority.

5.) My plan, now that I have all my sources, is to develop the key ideas I want to explore to create a well-rounded argument for this topic. Right now, I have a lot of reasons that Native Americans are truly ignored compared to other minorities in the United States.