 However, some education systems and curricula lack knowledge about Indigenous peoples ways of learning, causing an Educational Gap for Indigenous people.Factors for the Education Gap include lower school enrollments, poor school performance, low literacy rates, and higher dropout rates.Some schools teach Indigenous children to be "socialized" and to be a national asset to society by assimilating, "Schooling has been explicitly and implicitly a site of rejection of Indigenous knowledge and language, it has been used as a means of assimilating and integrating Indigenous peoples into a 'national' society and identity at the cost of their Indigenous identity and social practices".