Over recent years there has been a strong emphasis on year 12 completion as an indicator of success in remote First Nations education. The research reported in this article explores what students, school staff and community members say leads to secondary school retention and, ultimately, completion. The research was conducted in the Northern…

A need existed for instruments to measure status isomorphs for either income or political influence in the process of status attainment. To provide a base on which to build further work, instruments were developed in this project by which to measure youth's aspirations for and their significant others' expectations for the youth's future levels of…

Reports on a study of adolescents that probes the relationship between the attitudes of grade 6 students toward their school subjects, adult occupations and their actual course of study five years later. Findings indicate there is almost no connection between these attitudes and their course of study in grade 11. Discusses other findings. (KW)