Teach indigenous kids in mother tongue (fwd link)

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Updated: 19:58, Monday September 17, 2012
AUS

Teaching indigenous children in their mother tongue will help lift literacy
rates and school attendance, a federal parliamentary committee says.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Affairs committee has spent more
than 12 months looking into language learning in indigenous communities.

Its report, tabled in parliament on Monday, made 30 recommendations and
called on federal, state and territory governments to offer bilingual
education programs from the earliest years of learning.

Committee chairman Shayne Neumann, a Labor backbencher, said it was
'crystal clear' bilingual classrooms would improve school attendance.


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