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Friday, February 15th, 2013
Feb 14 2013
… students from grades 7 to 12 reported surprisingly high levels of stress, ranging from anxiousness to loss of confidence and loneliness… many of whom are watching parents live through tough economic times while obsessing about their own uncertain future… 46 per cent of high school students (and 34 per cent of upper elementary students) said they were not comfortable seeking help from any adult in their school… Student-led programs cost little but the board also needs to address its funding for school social workers and youth workers. Their specialized training and insight can help turn lives around.
Tags: mental Health, participation, youth
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Friday, February 15th, 2013
Feb. 14 2013
It’s no surprise that schools subtly discriminate against boys. After all, they are increasingly run by women – women who, as girls, were extremely good at sitting still, paying attention and co-operating. The schools have become more and more hostile to boys’ inclinations and interests. They have abolished competition in favour of co-operation – even though boys thrive on competition. They’ve outlawed rough-and-tumble play… In high school, they bore boys to death instead of teaching them how to make and build stuff.
Tags: youth
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Friday, January 11th, 2013
January 9, 2013
Technology can extend the reach of instruction without a proportional increase in time and cost, but more importantly, it can free the precious resource of the individual instructor’s personal attention from being consumed in presentation of basic facts and elementary principles… expanding the use of hybrid courses, experiential learning, problem-based learning and other techniques also allow essential contact time to be focused on high-value interaction…
Tags: budget, ideology, youth
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
Oct. 13, 2012
… The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy… discovered that the failure of the poorest kids was not preordained. Nearly 20 per cent of youngsters who started out as vulnerable, or in need of help, ended up meeting Grade 3 expectations… with the right types of interventions, we can work to ensure that over time there are more positive deflections than negative ones.
Tags: child care, ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Saturday, October 6th, 2012
October 06, 2012
The use of digital technology in higher education has promoted ignorance, not knowledge, and severely degraded basic reading, writing and thinking skills. It’s time to hit the off button… whether these uses contribute anything to the main goal of higher education: to improve students’ minds and characters by helping them to learn facts, debate ideas and understand the world better. The answer, for the most part, is no — study after study shows that digital technology has dumbed down higher education.
Tags: budget, standard of living, youth
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Saturday, September 29th, 2012
September 21, 2012
A return to three-year undergrads would move students more quickly to two-year masters and three-year PhD programs, or the workforce. It would free up teachers and class and lab space. It would reduce students’ tuition expenses… Online study doesn’t have to mean home study… The latter would be more enriched than before, since the fundamentals would have been imparted online.
Tags: budget, tax, youth
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Saturday, September 29th, 2012
September 29, 2012
… it was disappointing to see David Olive using the language of the Harris government by calling faculty and administrators self-interested. Are educators more self-interested than bankers, investors, and business owners who neither wish to support publicly funded education nor pay for training themselves?… David Olive’s column is riddled with questionable assumptions, misleading facts and logical mistakes.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Sunday, August 26th, 2012
18 August 2012
The classroom experience – live – remains the heart of real education… By “education” I don’t mean training or even mere instruction… Online education of this sort may sound good – false economies often do… Something is always better than nothing, and I applaud colleagues who undertake such outreach. Still, don’t mistake what’s better than nothing for what’s best.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, youth
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Friday, August 24th, 2012
9 August 2012
It is clear that the current system of publicly funded postsecondary education is in trouble. (In fact, the term now in use for universities and colleges is “publicly assisted,” since the share of operating revenues provided by provincial grants has shrunk to less than half of total revenues.) In Ontario, as enrolment numbers have dramatically expanded over the past decade, the hiring of faculty has not kept pace… Apart from internal consultations, we all need to listen carefully to the most important constituency here: students… There are plenty of interesting ideas for reform.
Tags: budget, economy, standard of living, youth
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