Native education gap will persist for decades: AG
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OTTAWA - It will take aboriginal high school students 28 years to match non-native graduation rates and they&#39;re losing ground, says the auditor general.
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Andrew Yost is a year and a half out of high school &#151; a teenager who juggles part-time farm work with a full load of college courses. Gus Douglass is old enough to be his grandfather &#151; a gray-haired political veteran who was first elected when Lyndon Johnson was in the White House.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Mar. 11--The amount of irrigated farmland in the Arkansas Valley has been dwindling for three decades and will continue to disappear as more water is converted to other uses.
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Life has improved for US women during the past 40 years, but big inequities persist, and they vary substantially by state, according to an assessment released Tuesday.
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Black ethnic minority pupils are still outperformed by their white classmates but continue to narrow the gap.
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American Indian and Alaska Native youth 15 to 24 years old are committing suicide at a rate more than three times the national average for their age group.
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By Wayne Nelson, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Dec. 12--It's been more than two decades since the Lake Region State College men's basketball program recorded back-to-back 20-win seasons.   That drought appears to be over.
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ALICE SPRINGS, Australia  - Aborigine Daryl Allen, 60, sits cross-legged in the dirt dreaming of the good times when his outback people lived hunting kangaroo and working as cattlemen, instead of drinking themselves to death.
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Global understanding could improve dramatically over the next 10 years through the simple fact that by 2015, a good proportion of the planet's population will be able to speak English, according to a recent study.
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Last spring Marisa Dudiak took her second-grade class in Frederick County, Maryland, on a field trip to an American Indian farm.
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The proportion of immigrants in the U.S. will surpass the peak reached more than a century ago, a study concludes.
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Future immigrants and their descendants will account for most of the increase among working-age adults through 2050, but growth in the older population will outpace all other groups, the Pew Hispanic Center reported Monday.
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Government education policies are failing to remedy the shortage of skilled workers, a business chief is to say.
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Immigrants are waiting for months or even years to get into government-financed English classes, which often lack textbooks.
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OTTAWA -- The federal government is wasting tens of millions on prescription drugs and its billion-dollar annual investment in native education is actually losing ground, Auditor-General Sheila Fraser said yesterday.
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Australia's aboriginal population is  booming as more people identify themselves as indigenous, but  Aborigines continue to be the nation's most disadvantaged  group, dying some 17 years younger.
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KANAIPUR, India  - Every morning 10-year-old Indian villager Nipa Haldar crosses a canal in a small boat and trudges along a mud road for 20 minutes to reach school, pursuing her dream of becoming a nurse.