Research Reports and Updates
FUNDING
- Aboriginal-Controlled Post-Secondary Institutes in British Columbia: Issues, Costs and Benefits
- First Nations Education Funding (FNEC, 2009)
- K-12 First Nations Education Funding Fact Sheet, (AFN, 2011)
- First Nations Control of First Nations Education (AFN, 2010)
- “If Not Now, Then When?” First Nations Jurisdiction Over Education – A Report to the Minister’s National Working Group on Education (Morgan, 2002)
- Redefining How Success is Measured in First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Learning (CCL, 2007)
- First Nations Educational Jurisdiction – National Background Paper (Tremblay/AFN, 2001)
- Tradition and Education: Towards a Vision of Our Future – Declaration on First Nations Jurisdiction (AFN, 1988)
- Treaty Right to Education (Carr-Stewart, 2001)
- First Nations 2nd and 3rd Level Services (McCue, 2006)
- Why We Need a First Nations Education Act (Mendelson, 2009)
- Constraints of Poverty on High Achievement, Burney, V. H., Beilke, J.R., 2008
- Educational Costs and Tuition Fees, FNEC, 2005
- Essential Services Implementation Plan, FNEC, 2008
- First Nations Basic Services – Cost Driver Project, INAC, 2006
- Fiscal Fairness for First Nations, AFN, 2006
- Funding Requirement for First Nations Schools in Canada, PBO, 2009
- Impact of the 2% Cap at the National Level, FNEC, 2009
- National Week of Action on Education Pamphlet, AFN, 2010
- Special Education Policies of Cost Containment, Phillips, 2010
- Towards the Financial Accessibility of Lifelong Learning, FNEC, 2010
- Weighted Student Formula, INAC, 2006
JURISDICTION, GOVERNANCE and SYSTEMS
- Honoring Our Students
- Comparison of National Strategies in Indigenous Post-secondary Education: Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America
- Aboriginal Maternal And Infant Health In Canada: Review Of On-Reserve Programming
- Where To From Here?: Building A First Nations Early Childhood Strategy
- Closing the Education Gap: A Case for Aboriginal Early Childhood Education in Canada, A Look at the Aboriginal Headstart Program
- Aboriginal Early Language Promotion and Early Intervention
- Supporting First Nations Learners Transitioning to Post-Secondary Report
- Study of Educational Cost Drivers to First Nations Education (Simon, 2006)
- Constitutional Reconciliation of Education for Aboriginal Peoples (Battiste, 2009)
- Investing in the Future: First Nations Education in Canada (AFN, 2003)
- Tradition and Education: Towards a Vision of Our Future – Volume 3 Executive Summary (AFN, 1988)
- Sovereignty, Jurisdiction, and Guiding Principles in Aboriginal Education in Canada (Johnson, Longboat, 1986)
- Supporting an Equitable Funding Framework (FNEC, 2009)
- Self-Government Agreements and Jurisdiction in Education (McCue, 1999)
- OCAP: Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (First Nations Information Governance Committee, 2007)
- Community Dialogues on First Nations Holistic Lifelong Learning, CCL, 2009
- Creating Pathways – Aboriginal Early Years, Little Drum Consulting, 2009
- Education Protocol Framework Agreement, FNEC, 2006
- Evaluation of First Nations SchoolNet Program, INAC, 2009
- First Nations Background and Position Paper on Systems, AFN, 2007
- Focusing INAC’s PSE Program: Targets and Impacts, AFN – Waslander, B., June 2009
- How the World’s Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better, McKinsey & Company, 2010
- Logic Model, AFN, 2010
- Promising Practices: Increasing and Supporting Participation for Aboriginal Students in Ontario, Malatest & Associates, 2010
- The Destiny of Education for First Nations Children – Priority Intervention Areas, FNEC, 2002
- The Urgent Need for Criteria, FNEC, 2002
LANGUAGE and CULTURE
- UN Human Resource Council - 21st session - Expert Mechanism - Role of language and culture in the promotion and protection of the rights and identity of indigenous peoples - August 16, 2012
- UN Human Resource Council - 12th session – Human Rights Bodies and Mechanism - Study on Lessons Learned and Challenges to Achieve the Implementation of the Right of Indigenous – August 2009
- Comparable Education: Is there a place for ‘comparability’ in First Nation Control of First Nation Education?
- First Nations Lifelong Learning Assessment - March 31, 2012
- Early Childhood Education and Care: Next Steps
- Culture and Early Childhood Education
- A Review of the Research Literature on the Influences of Culturally Based Education on the Academic Performance of Native American Students (Demmert, 2003)
- Indigenous Language Immersion Schools for Strong Indigenous Identities (Reyhner, 2010)
- Naturalizing Indigenous Knowledge (Little Bear, 2009)
- Post Secondary Education Fact Sheet (AFN, 2011)
- Our Children – Keepers of the Sacred Knowledge – Final Report of the Minister’s National Working Group on Education (Jeffrey, Jette, 2002)
- Indigenous Knowledge and Pedagogy in First Nations Education: A Literature Review With Recommendations – A Report to the Minister’s National Working Group on Education (Battiste, 2002)
- Aboriginal Young Children’s Language and Literacy Development, Ball, J., 2007
- Accord on Indigenous Education, ACDE, 2010
- Canada’s Native Languages: Wrongs from the Past, Rights for the Future, Leitch, D., 2006
- English Language Acquisition and Navajo Achievement in Magdalena, NM, 2009
- First Nations Languages and Improving Student Outcomes
- National First Nations Language Strategy July 10-12, 2007
- First Nation Language Plan Cost Estimate, Draft, 2007
- Healthy Children, Healthy Nations, HELP, 2010
- Indigenous Children’s Education as Linguistic Genocide, Skutnabb-Kangas & Dunbar,2010
- Learning Patterns and Education of Aboriginal Children, Rasmussen, C., Baydala, L., Sherman, J., 2004
- Linguistic Decline and the Educational Gap, Bear Nicholas, 2009
- Literature Review on Current Practices in First Nation Parents and Community Involvement, FNEC, 2009
- Parent and Community Engagement Survey, FNEC, 2009
- Schooling In the Language, Bear Nicholas, A., 2010
- Stabilizing Indigenous Languages, Center for Excellence in Education, 2007
- State of Aboriginal Learning in Canada – Executive Summary, CCL 2009
- State of Aboriginal Learning in Canada – Fact Sheet, CCL 2009
- State of Aboriginal Learning in Canada – Final Report, CCL 2009
- State of Aboriginal Learning in Canada – Holistic Framework, CCL 2009
- The 4 R's, Kirkness, V. J. and R. Barnhardt, 2001
- Toward a New Beginning, Task Force on Aboriginal Languages and Cultures, June 2005
RIGHTS and RESPONSIBILITIES
- Auditor General Reports – Excerpts (1986-2009)
- Education Excerpts from Treaties (Treaties # 1-11)
- Human Rights Bodies and Mechanisms: Study on Lessons Learned and Challenges to Achieve the Implementation of the Right of Indigenous Peoples to Education (Human Rights Council, 2009)
- The Right to Education and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Graham, 2010)
- INAC Recipient Reporting Guide (2009-2010)
- Indian Act (s. 114-122)
- 2010 Report Card on Child on Poverty, 1989-2010
- Aboriginal Teachers’ Professional Knowledge, St. Denis, V., 2010
- Diversity within Canada’s Indigenous Community, Voyageur, C.J., Calliou, B., 2000-2001
- Investing in Aboriginal Education in Canada, CSLS, 2010
- TD Economics: Aboriginal People in Canada, TD Bank, 2011
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2008
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Canadian Government Positions Incompatible with Genuine Reconciliation, Joffe, P., 2010
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Fact Sheet, 2011
- Walking a Mile: A First Step Toward Mutual Understanding, Public Agenda, 2007
