Indigenous Thinkers

PUBLICATIONS (William G. Demmert, Jr.) link to Eric Digest of Publications 

1.      Caw Goo Woo (Demmert, William G., Jr.), (1981). "An Eagle Speaks,” Alaska Fish Tales and Game Trails, Volume 13, Number 3, pp. 30-32. 

2.      Christensen, Rosemary Ackley, and Demmert, William G., Jr., (1978). "The Education of Indians and the Mandate of History," The Schooling of Native America, Thompson, Thomas, Editor, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education: Washington, D.C. 

3.      Demmert, William G., Jr., (1983).  "An American Indian View on Education for Indigenous Minorities,"  The Education of Minority Groups, An Inquiry Into Problems and Politics of Fifteen Countries, Center for Educational Research and Innovation, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Paris, pp. 337-348. 

4.      Demmert, William G., Jr., "The Process of Education:  A Personal Experience," (1983).  Education in Alaska's Past, Gary Stein, Editor, Alaska Historical Society, pp. 151-175. 

5.      Demmert, William G., Jr., (1976). "Education: A Family Responsibility,"  Early Childhood Education: It’s An Art?  It's A Science, J.D. Andres, Editor, pp. 17-25. 

6.      Demmert, William G., Jr., (1976). "Education Reform,"  ERIC Bulletin, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Volume 4, Number 10. 

7.      Demmert, William G., Jr., (1981). "Education For Marine Resources Management," Fisheries Education in Alaska: Creating A Program of Excellence, Smoker, William W., Editor, Alaska Sea Grant Report 82-4, University of Alaska, Juneau, pp. 95-100. 

8.      Demmert, William G., Jr., (1971). "Goals and Perspectives of the American Indian in Education,"  Indian Voices:  The Native American Today, A Report on the Second Convocation of Indian Scholars, Indian Historian Press, pp. 30-35. 

9.      Demmert, William G., Jr., (1976) "Indian Education: Where and Whither?" American Education, Volume 12, pp. 6-9. 

10.  Demmert, William G., Jr., (1976). "Indian Education: Where and Whither?” The Education Digest, Volume VXLII, Number 4, pp. 40-44. 

11.  Demmert, William G., Jr., (1976). "Tribal Chartered Education," Contemporary Native American Address, Maestas, John R., Editor, p. 156-159, 1976. 

12.  Demmert, William G., Jr., (1984). Editor, A Southeast Conference on "Native Education," April 11-12, 1983, (ERIC). 

13.  Demmert, William G., Jr., Editor, (1`984). A Report of a Seminar on A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, Juneau, Alaska, (ERIC). 

14.  Demmert, William, G., Jr., and Robert J. Silverman, (1986). Characteristics of Successful Leaders, University of Alaska-Juneau, (ERIC). 

15.  Demmert, William G., Jr., Editor, (1986). Indigenous Peoples and Education in the Circumpolar North, Greenland’s Seminarium, Godthab Greenland. 

16.  Demmert, William G., Jr., (1989). "Rural Schools in a Technological World,"  Self Determination in Native Education in the Circumpolar North, Editors Farrow, Malcolm and Wilman, David, the Government of the Northwest Territories, Department of Education, Northwest Territories, Canada, pp. 78-86. 

17.  Demmert, William G. Jr., (1994). "Public Schools," and "Indian Education Act, 1972," Mary B. Davis et.al., Editors, Native America in The Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York,  pp. 486-489 and 255-256. 

18.  Demmert, William, (1994). "Blueprints for Indian Education: Languages and Cultures,"  ERIC DIGEST, EDO-RC-94-3, Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Charleston, WV. 

19.  Demmert, William, (1995). "Indian Nations at Risk: An Educational Strategy for Action," Laura I. Rendon, Richard O. Hope and Associates, Editors, Educating A New Majority, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, pp. 231-262. 

20.  Demmert, William G., (1998). "School and Community," Future Teacher, Recruiting New Teachers, Inc., Vol. 5, No. 2,  p. 3. 

21.  Demmert, William G., and Keskitalo, Jan Henry. (1998).  "Report from the International Steering Committee on Cross-Cultural Education in the North: Influencing Public Policy - Education in the Circumpolar North, Equity and Excellence in Education, The University of Massachusetts School of Education Journal, V. 31, No. 1, pp. 81-83. 

22.  Demmert, William G. (1998). “Ministers of Education in the Circumpolar North: A Consortium,” Learning to be Circumpolar: Experiences in Arctic Academic Cooperation, Richard Langlais and Outi Snellmen, editors, Publications in the University of the Arctic Process No. 5, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi. 

23.  Demmert, William G., Jr., (1999). “Indian Education Revisited: A Personal Experience,” Journal of American Indian Education, Volume 38, Number 3, Special Issue 1, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. 

24.  Demmert, William G., Jr., (2001). Improving Academic Performance Among Native American Students: A Review of the Research Literature, ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Charleston, WV. (http://www.eric.ed.gov). 

25.  Demmert, William. (2002). “Who Am I? Issues of Language, Culture and Identity for Native Americans,” ESL Magazine, pp. 26-28. 

26.  Demmert, William G., & Towner, John C., (2003). A Review of the Research Literature on the Influences of Culturally Based Education on the Academic performance of Native American Students, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland Oregon. (http://www.nwrel.org/indianed/cbe.pdf )  

27.  Demmert, William G., Jr. (2005). “The Influences of Culture on Learning and Assessment Among Native American Students.” Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 20(1), 16-23, The Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children.  

FILM PRODUCTION 

1. Demmert, William G., Jr. Producer, Borda, Margarita, Director, (2004). Finding The Past, Sunshots Productions, Miami, Florida.  ASSOCIATE PUBLICATIONS (Committee Projects for which I had primary responsibility) 1.      Demmert, William G., Jr., An Early Childhood/Parenting Strategy for Alaska, Alaska Department of Education, October 31, 1988. 

2.      Demmert, William G., Jr., Rethinking and Restructuring Alaska's Primary Schools:  Kindergarten Through Fourth Grade, Alaska Department of Education, September 1, 1989. 

3.      Federal Interagency Committee on Education, Summary Report and Recommendations Resultant from the Convocation on Indian Education, sponsored by the Subcommittee on Indian Education, Demmert, William G., Jr., Chairperson, April 1978, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Education, Washington, D.C. 

4.      Indian Nations At Risk: An Educational Strategy For Action, Final Report of the Indian Nations At Risk Task Force, Demmert, William G. (principal writer) and Bell, Terrel H., Co-Chairs, U.S. Department of Education, October, 1991. 

5.      Report of the Subcommittee on Indian Education to the Federal Interagency Committee on Education, Demmert, William G., Jr., Chairperson, April 1978.  

NATIONAL REPORTS (Reports of national committees that I have been a member of) 

1.    Measured Progress:  The Report of the Independent Review Panel on the Evaluation Federal Education Legislation.  U.S. Department of Education, April 1999.  

2.    What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, Report of the National              Commission on Teaching and America's Future, September 1996.     

3.  A BLUEPRINT FOR THE SECOND GENERATION, Report of the Stanford Working Group, Federal Education Programs for Limited-English-Proficient Students, Stanford, California, June 14, 1993.  

4.    The Final Report of the White House Conference on Indian Education, Volumes I and II, May 1992. 

5.    Education That Works: An Action Plan For The Education Of Minorities, Quality Education For Minorities Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 1990.