Language skills in the preschool period are an important indicator of early development and school readiness for children. However, little is known about the association between aspects of the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Aboriginal children should be forced to learn English to escape lives of poverty and inequality, said Australia's indigenous affairs minister. "Too many still only have a ...

Students at a preschool on the NSW Central Coast are learning the local Darkinjung dialect, which was considered a sleeping language. The preschool's commitment to teaching local Aboriginal culture ...

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...

A documentary about a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy's experience in school, In My Blood It Runs, has reignited a debate about Australia's failure to give indigenous children a good education and a fair ...