It was, as prominent Indigenous education leader Noel Pearson said, a tragic story like so many we read about in the ...
'Fatal current of illiteracy': Noel Pearson slams nation's failure to adopt the science of reading
In 2018, while fleeing police pursuit, 16-year-old Chris Drage drowned in Perth's Swan River, along with his best friend.
Pearson said Drage’s life trajectory mirrored that of so many other Indigenous children whose lives are destroyed because primary schools do not follow the science of reading.
Pearson said Drage’s life trajectory mirrored that of so many other Indigenous children whose lives are destroyed because primary schools do not follow the science of reading.
