Aboriginal High School Completion Climbs
Friday, February 15, 2013 @ 3:30 PM
Victoria, B.C. – The provincial government says steady improvement is being made in the number of aboriginal students who are completing high school.
The government says more aboriginal students finished high school last year than ever before. The overall aboriginal student completion rate for public and independent schools combined in 2011-12 was 56.4 per cent, up from 53.7 per cent in 2010-11, and up from 50.4 per cent in 2009-10. During the past ten years, aboriginal completion rates have increased by nearly 14 percentage points.
To support this student success, 53 school districts have five-year Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreements in place. These agreements bring together districts, local aboriginal communities and the Ministry of Education to encourage academic achievement and bring aboriginal culture and history into classrooms for the benefit of all students.
As well, last year the Ministry of Education created a new position, superintendent of Aboriginal Achievement, to maintain community partnerships, support the development of personalized learning opportunities, and further strengthen aboriginal completion rates.
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Again. Statistics in percentages mean nothing if you have nothing to compare it to.
How many students actually graduated in 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12. This would be the figure we would need.
When your sample size is an entire Province, percentages are the best way to present this information.
As a stats person (sorry, numbers are my game not spelling, so don’t know how to spell statistician), I agree with Smooth. If you’re talking about a small number of data points, you would be right in saying that percentage change might be misleading, but the number of Aboriginal children in the K12 system must number in the 10’s of thousands, so percentage change is an appropriate descriptive statistic.
This sort of change is meaningful in an applied sense and a very positive and hopeful sign but it would be nice to know if the change is statistically significant.
More better finish high school with all the millions of dollars we are spending on multiple programs an all.
Wow..look at how good the liberal gov is doing.. Oops..no they aren’t.. Just twisting the numbers so they can grand stand and try to garnish votes… They will be lucky if they get enough votes to pass the upcoming budget.. Could be the fall of the provincial gov as well..
Those figures are abysmal to say the least…
I’m willing to bet that this is nothing more than smoke and mirrors… I wonder how many of these students would pass if the system weren’t dumbed down enough if even the least capable were able to pass so long as they showed up enough to have a check beside their names? I know a girl with a certificate that can’t multiply fractions, string a coherent written sentence together and thinks that ghosts are real. This is progress? I suppose when raw numbers are involved the idea that “everyone wins!” becomes more important than actual education.
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