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Test-Based Accountability, Standardized Testing and Minority/Racialized Students' Perspectives in Urban Schools in Canada and Australia
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Rezai-Rashti, Goli M.; Lingard, Bob – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This paper focuses on the perspectives of minority/racialized students in urban high schools. It is based on findings of interviews with 85 students in six secondary schools in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada, and in Melbourne, Australia, during 2016-2019. While there has been increasing attention to closing the racial achievement gap and some…
Descriptors: Accountability, Standardized Tests, Minority Group Students, Student Attitudes
Indigenous Students Attendance at One Australian Urban Primary School (2005-2015): A Case Study
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Baxter, Lindy P.; Meyers, Noel M. – Australian Journal of Education, 2019
Urban Indigenous students' school attendance and factors contributing to annual attendance rates are relatively unknown, and yet almost 80% of the Indigenous population resides in non-remote regions. Our longitudinal study evaluated an urban primary school where Indigenous families preferentially enrolled their children because they recognised it…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
Stories from Inequity to Justice in Literacy Education: Confronting Digital Divides. Routledge Research in Education
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Morrell, Ernest, Ed.; Rowsell, Jennifer, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2019
Challenging the assumption that access to technology is pervasive and globally balanced, this book explores the real and potential limitations placed on young people's literacy education by their limited access to technology and digital resources. Drawing on research studies from around the globe, "Stories from Inequity to Justice in Literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Equal Education, Access to Computers, Disadvantaged
Indigenous Secondary Education in the Northern Territory: Building for the Future
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Herbert, Jeannie; McInerney, Dennis M.; Fasoli, Lyn; Stephenson, Peter; Ford, Lysbeth – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2014
This article reports on the findings of an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded research project, "Building the future for Indigenous students", an investigation of the hopes and dreams for the future of over 1,000 secondary students, 733 of whom were Indigenous, living in very remote, remote, and urban locations in the Northern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Qualitative Research
Movie Lessons for New Learning
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Saltmarsh, David – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
In 2004 the Australia Council of Deans of Education (ACDE) released a report entitled "New teaching, new learning: A vision for Australian education". This report was prepared on behalf of the ACDE by Mary Kalantzis and Andrew Harvey, respectively the President and Executive Officer of the ACDE. The argument put forward in the report is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Caring, Urban Schools, Popular Culture
Resting Lightly on Mother Earth: The Aboriginal Experience in Urban Educational Settings.
Ward, Angela; Bouvier, Rita – 2001
This book examines the differential educational experiences of Aboriginal peoples in urban centers--primarily in Canada, but also in Australia and the United States. Major themes of the book are maintenance of individual and collective Aboriginal identity, the impact on that identity of disconnection from the land, spirituality as the key to…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, American Indian Education, American Indian Students, Canada Natives