Academic Marcia Langton is denying suggestions that sending more Indigenous students to boarding schools, rather than learn in their own communities, would create a new 'stolen generation'.
Last night Professor Langton controversially put forward a plan to close the education gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students by sending them to private, metropolitan schools.
The expert in Indigenous education says the Australian education system must stop treating Indigenous students differently from their non-Indigenous peers, and suggested more Indigenous teachers, flexibility in the timing of the school year and cross-cultural training for Aboriginal children to improve students' marks.
"It's quite wrong to refer to this as ... a new stolen generation because Aboriginal parents willingly send their children to these schools. They want their children to have a good education so the conditions are there for them to perform much better," she told Lateline, last night.
Professor Langton blames a severe lack of resources and constant experimentation for the current failures in the education system for Indigenous students.
Naplan data shows just over 20 percent of regional and remote students achieve pass standards in national literacy and numeracy compared to over 70 percent of metropolitan children.
