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Statistics released in June by American College Testing and the National Indian Education Association find that Native students are missing the mark on college preparedness exams. In 2014, 55 percent of Native students did not meet any of the college preparedness benchmarks on the standardized ACT test. These benchmarks include English, reading, mathematics and science.
I have to admit, I was intimidated when I was assigned to interview Charlie LeDuff, an investigative reporter for WJBK 2 News, the Fox affiliate in Detroit. LeDuff, who is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan, was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on race when he was a reporter for The New York Times. His writing is legendary, and his personality larger than life.
This is the story of how I got the Washington NFL club to agree to let me do an interview with Dan Snyder, the principal owner. I planned to ask the owner about his team’s offensive name, and I pestered the club repeatedly until I scored this great journalistic “get.” Or at least, I thought I did.
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