Measuring student outcomes: the case for identifying Indigenous students in Canada's PISA sample

In an industrialized, high-income country such as Canada, escape from poverty requires children in poor families to complete, at a minimum, their secondary education and that the instruction be of decent quality. Unfortunately, weak K-12 education outcomes persist in Canada among ethnic groups that, for many reasons, have historically experienced discrimination and marginalization. In this E-Brief, we examine briefly the recently released 2016 census results on high-school completion levels among Indigenous Canadians, and discuss the pros and cons of identifying Indigenous students in the educ... Show more

Authors: Richards, John; Mahboubi, Parisa

Published: Toronto, Ontario, C. D. Howe Institute, 2018

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 13 p.

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