Core Issues
The 'Core Issues' series is a set of short, topic-based papers intended to provide key directions for practical action to improve outcomes for Indigenous students.
Core Issues 1: Setting Up For Success (1,424 kb)
Suggests ways in which schools might best be set up to maximise success for Indigenous students.
Core Issues 2: Reducing Suspensions (223 kb)
Looks at positive alternatives to student suspension, and their implementation.
Core Issues 3: Literacy (167 kb)
Explores questions about what it means to develop genuinely effective literacy.
Core Issues 4: Numeracy (298 kb)
Tackles important questions about the meaning and importance of numeracy.
Core Issues 6: Boarding (181 kb)
Looks at current practice in this small but growing area of Indigenous education.
Core Issues 7: International Perspectives (223 kb)
Report of the DEST/OECD seminar held in Cairns in May 2007.
Core Issues 8: Education and Student Health (1,498 kb)
Looks at some of the health issues affecting Indigenous students and the part schools and teachers can play in dealing with them.
