Students in Jeopardy: An Agenda for Improving Results in Band-Operated Schools

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Closing the Divide: Progress and Challenges in Adult Skills Development Among Indigenous Peoples

“…raise serious concerns. The dropout rate among Indigenous people is substantially higher than that for non-Indigenous Canadians (Anderson and Richards 2016), further compounding the broader skills challenges in the labour market.…”

“…British Columbia is rare in that it collects and publishes data that track the performance of Indigenous students in provincial schools. Yet other overarching reasons to monitor Indigenous student outcomes are institutional ones: they should help educators and administrators better understand the causes for differences in -and focus attention on -student outcomes to guide improvement (Anderson and Richards 2016).…”

A narrative inquiry into experiences of Indigenous teachers during and after teacher preparation

“…Other factors include a lack of awareness among teachers and schools of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit students' learning styles, cultures, histories, and perspectives (Anderson and Richards 2016;Ontario Ministry of Education 2007); and the fact that educators and public school administrators are 'generally unequipped to employ pedagogy and curricular practices culturally appropriate for Aboriginal students' (Cherubini 2009, 9).…”

“…Also, you may notice that we have made several references to education 'gaps' in this study. This is part of the dominant framing of the gaps in Canada's Indigenous versus non-Indigenous socio-economic outcomes including education (Anderson and Richards 2016;Cherubini 2009;Drummond and Rosenbluth 2013;Richards 2008). For a critical discussion of Indigenous 'gap talk,' please see; Pholi, Black and Richards 2009; Rigney and Hemming 2014; and others.…”

Red Flags for Educators: Lessons for Canada in the PISA Results

“…A powerful predictor of subsequent failure to complete secondary studies is weak student outcomes on core competency tests (Anderson & Richards 2016). The census evidence of highschool completion among young adults indicates exceptionally low First Nations completion rates in Manitoba and Saskatchewan (Table A1, 11 No on-reserve schools figure among the schools sampled for inclusion in PISA testing.…”