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A Personal History of Indigenous Education: Verna Kirkness’s Creating Space
Reviewed in this essay: Creating Space: My Life and Work in Indigenous Education by Verna Kirkness. Published by the University of Manitoba Press (September 2013). In 1950, children on the Fisher River Indian reserve went to residential school after grade eight. One child on the reserve, however, had to stay behind. Residential schools only admitted status…
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The Drummond Commission and First Nations Education
On February 15, 2012 the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services released the long awaited “Drummond Report.” Don Drummond, the former Chief Economist for TD Bank, was asked to lead the Commission and help balance Ontario’s budget by 2017-18. Drummond claims that in order to meet this target, the government must restrict the…