Education as an Investment for Indians on
Reserves
(by David P. Ross, 1991, approx. 40 pp., #438, $10.00)
Approximately 70 per cent of registered Indians do not
complete high school. According to recent statistics,
69,000 young Indian adults on reserves had not
completed high school, and 33,000 had less than nine
years of schooling. This report examines the causes of
these poor educational levels and shows how the
situation could be improved quickly and relatively
inexpensively by implementing the Aboriginal Literacy
Action Plan for adult basic education, that was
developed by Aboriginal peoples themselves. Combined
with a longer-term strategy, the author argues that a
small investment now would reap spectacular lifetime
benefits for both Native and government coffers.
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