Education failure in any language (fwd link)

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Education failure in any language

Nicolas Rothwell
From: The Australian December 05, 2009 12:00AM

IN the murky realm of indigenous policy-making, the darkest, most confused
region is the labyrinth of initiatives for education in Aboriginal languages
and competing proposals for the preservation of Australia's original words and
ways of life.

For the past 18 months, since the Northern Territory scrapped its loose
commitment to providing initial tuition, at a handful of remote schools, in
Aboriginal languages, the flames of reactive controversy have burned bright.
Reports have been drafted, new schemes proposed, campaigns waged, all aimed at
saving indigenous languages and teaching in those languages, all to little
effect.


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