Percentage of fourth-grade self-identified AI/AN students' responses to a question about exposure to their AI/AN language at home, by school density: 2007
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Findings
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Sixty-one percent of self-identified AI/AN fourth-graders reported being exposed to their native language at home at least once in a while.
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The percentage of self-identified AI/AN fourth-grade students reporting that family members talked to each other in their native language "most of the time" was higher for students attending high density schools than for their peers in low density schools.
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* Significantly different (p < .05) from low density schools.
NOTE: AI/AN = American Indian/Alaska Native. School density indicates the proportion of AI/AN students enrolled. High density schools have 25 percent or more AI/AN students. Low density schools have less than 25 percent. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. View complete data for grades 4 and 8 with standard errors.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2007 National Indian Education Study.
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