A ‘better’ education: An examination of the utility of boarding school for Indigenous secondary students in Western Australia

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A ‘better’ education: An examination of the utility of boarding school for Indigenous secondary students in Western Australia

© Australian Council for Educational Research 2018. Over the past 10 years, great improvements have been observed in the Year 12 attainment rate of Indigenous Australians. This has been due, in part, to government funding of programmes aimed at improving education opportunity for Indigenous Australi...

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Main Authors:	Macdonald, M., Gringart, E., Ngarritjan Kessaris, T., Cooper, Martin, Gray, J.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Sage Publications Ltd. 2018
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72889

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