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For the past 30 years, this Indigenous owned and controlled school has been quietly achieving results. Here’s what the school board president says is behind their success.
These books introduce children to Indigenous culture and experiences through colourful pictures and powerful storytelling.
If the government is to continue to spend millions toward sending Indigenous children away to boarding school, we need research into how effective this model is, and its impact on communities.
Despite improvements to their content over time, secondary school history textbooks still imply that ‘real’ Australians are white.
The children who are least likely to attend school regularly – and do well – grow up in households where the adults themselves have very poor literacy skills.
Indigenous peoples have very little power when it comes to education policy. Goals, targets and strategies are instead set by the government.
Indigenous students who graduate from university have slightly higher full-time employment prospects than their non-Indigenous peers.
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Indigenous policy analyst & researcher, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Cultural Studies in Health, University of Tasmania
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First Nations Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, University of New England
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Assistant Professor (Law School), The University of Western Australia
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Executive Director, The Literacy for Life Foundation; Adjunct Professor, University of New England
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Project Officer- Building Cultural Capacity Project Learning and Teaching Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Assistant Dean Indigenous/ Senior lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Senior linguistics researcher, Charles Darwin University
