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How to make the city a classroom and free the students
Our young citizens rightfully expect universities to provide them with high-quality learning experiences that are social, flexible, interdisciplinary and relevant in order to learn how to improve our cities and create a better world. They may need the information and degrees that universities offer, but they also crave experiences that will teach them how to become changemakers, innovators and social entrepreneurs in our cities.
Tags: participation, standard of living, youth
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Tinker, tailor, university grad – guess who makes the most money?
… recent university graduates have fared significantly better than graduates from other postsecondary institutions. University graduates in Ontario have the best employment rates, make the most money and are more likely to get a job in their field than are students with other credentials… Six months after graduation, university graduates earn 30 per cent more than college graduates. The income gap only increases with time
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living, youth
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Money alone can’t fix aboriginal education
Aboriginals have won the fight that there should be parallel systems: one for their children on-reserve, and one for others… The reserves themselves, in too many cases, are economic basket cases because of location, size, lack of wage employment, welfare dependency, breakup of families and a litany of other challenges… [It’s] it difficult to compensate for poor social skills, discipline or work ethic if a child is less than ready to learn due to family or community issues.
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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Canada’s education spending: Going up, but is it going to the right places?
Boards have increased their spending quite sharply over the past decade. In Canada as a whole, expenditures have increased 53 per cent – or 5.3 per cent a year, a rate much higher than inflation… the spending increase was not about having more kids to serve. Teachers and administrators got some of the increase, but not all of it… The area that actually grew the most was capital outlays, which were up by 271 per cent over 10 years
Tags: budget, economy, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax, youth
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Why Global Learning Scores Matter, and Why They Don’t
… Finnish education is egalitarian and cooperative, and PISA confirms it: gender differences in math and reading achievement are “among the lowest compared to other countries participating in PISA,” and relatively few Finnish students are among the low performers… social-democratic countries compete (very effectively) against the world. We compete against each other, and so do our kids. For us, education is a war of attrition, a kind of endless Hunger Games, and the survivors are the kids with the most advantages.
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Full-day kindergarten is no magic bullet
Universal early education is widely regarded as a magic bullet that will level the playing field between the haves and have-nots, reduce income inequality, build human capital and ensure that more of our children succeed in the scary new world of the 21st century. Educators, economists and politicians all say so. But what does the evidence say? … a 2010 meta-study by four Duke University authors found that… Kids did better in Grade 1. But their advantage quickly faded.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Ontario’s full-day kindergarten a success story
… the number of children with risk factors who have had two years of full-day kindergarten has dropped from 27 per cent to 20 per cent. Even after one year of Ontario’s world-class play-based learning program led by our highly competent early learning educators, risk in the area of language and cognitive development has plummeted a stunning 75 per cent. Equally remarkable, after two years of FDK, risk in the areas of social competence and communication skills has been reduced by half.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, standard of living
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Universities should educate – employers should train
Our economic health depends on the critical thinkers our universities are graduating. The next generation of leaders in our knowledge-based economy will emerge from these institutions and can only truly be great if employers understand and value a university degree as a broad education, not specific skills training.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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Atkinson Message to New Premier: Recommit to Vision for Full Day Learning
It was smart public policy using the assets Ontarians already own in their publicly funded schools; ending the double billing needed to run two parallel services – school and daycare — for the same children. The innovation lasted for about 12 months. The daycare lobby went ballistic accusing government of stealing its clients. The then Premier yielded, reversing his own legislation to allow school boards to contract out care to daycare operators.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living
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Vision for full-day kindergarten in Ontario falling short, says expert
… when school boards balked at running before- and after-school programs, the government amended the legislation to allow them to contract out the service. The vast majority of boards… decided to continue using third-party operators… Meanwhile, in Waterloo and Ottawa, where school boards took on the responsibility of delivering daycare, waiting lists have been reduced to zero and educators say kids are thriving.
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