Contends that Aboriginal participation rates will lag behind the non-Aboriginal population until major reforms are executed in elementary and secondary school education and the curriculum used in Aboriginal schools.
Raising Adult Literacy Skills: The Need for A Pan-Canadian Response: Report of the Standing committee on Human Resources Development and Status of Persons With Disabilities
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Standing Committee on Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities
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Chapter Four of Raising Adult Literacy Skills: The Need for A Pan-Canadian Response
Makes 5 recommendations, to help aboriginal students succeed in school and reduce the gap in student achievement, to the Ministry of Education and school boards.
Chapter 3 section 3.05 of the 2012 Annual Report of the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario.
Annual Report of the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario ; 2016
Follow-Up Reports on Value-for-Money Audits, Annual Report 2016, Volume 2
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Auditor General of Ontario
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Chapter 3 section 3.02 of the Follow-Up Reports on Value-for-Money Audits, Annual Report 2016, Volume 2. Committee recommendations and detailed status of actions.
in education: exploring our connective educational landscape, vol. 17, no. 2, Summer, 2011, p. [?]
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Researches how First Nations cultural access, practice & preservation are essential to the development and enhancement of second level support services to help Aboriginal students succeed.
Documentary about children being forced to leave their reserves in order to attend high school. Follows a student from Kingfisher Lake First Nation to Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Between 2000 and 2011 seven students from remote First Nations have been found dead in Thunder Bay.
Duration: 33:11.
Discusses the need for governments to remove barriers to First Nations economic activity and how more needs to be done to ensure that Aboriginal youth complete skills training, K-12 schooling and post-secondary education.
Provides an overview of the Canadian system at that point in time. Compares "Indian" schools to other Canadian schools in terms of enrolment, retention, and test results, and discusses whether the mainstream model is suitable for "Indian" children and their communities.
Concluded that a "revised" infrastructure was needed and current resources should be substantially increased in order for students to attain academic parity with the general population.
Education Canada, vol. 50, no. 4, Fall, 2010, p. [?]
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Compares the No Child Left Behind program initiated in the United States in 2001 and Canada's First Nations Student Success Program (FNSSP) introduced in 2009.
Historical data based on 1981 Census. Looks at on-reserve elementary and secondary schooling, socio-economic factors influencing success, post-secondary education, educational attainment in adults, and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's expenditures.
Maytree Policy in Focus, no. 5, September 2008, pp. 1-8
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Describes the failure of the educational system on reserves and gives recommendations to improve educational attainment.
Presents background and context to Michael Mendelson's research Improving Education on Reserves: A First Nations Authority Act
Compares delivery of secondary education to Indigenous young people to other states in Australia and outcomes being achieved by remote and urban students.
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)
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Objective of the programming is to provide eligible students living in a First Nations community with education programs comparable to those that are required in provincial schools.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 20, no. 3, 1995, pp. 349-366
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Examines the evolution of Native education policies in both the United States and Canada comparing which is closer to bringing Native control over eduction.