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The
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) is a private,
nonprofit research and development corporation. Under a contract
with the U.S. Department of Education, SEDL is one of ten regional
educational laboratories whose regions combine to cover the United
States. SEDL's region includes Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, and Texas. In comparison to the other regions, the population
of American Indians in SEDL's region is large.
In
1992 the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) in
Aurora, Colorado joined forces with several other regional educational
laboratories to launch what was called the Native Education Initiative.
Under the leadership of Joann Sebastian Morris, who later became
Director of the Office of Indian Education Programs for the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, the Native Education Initiative spearheaded the
development of several Native education resource directories and
monographs. This source book grew out of this work.
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