why Indigenous students need bilingual teaching at school
- Written by: Rikke Louise Bundgaard-Nielsen, Teaching Associate, The University of Melbourne
ShutterstockLast month, the federal government released the annual Closing the Gap data.
According to the report, 34.3% of Indigenous preschoolers were starting school developmentally on track, compared to almost 55% of non-Indigenous Australian students as of 2021.
About 68% of Indigenous people aged 20–24 years had attained Year 12 or...
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