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Illiteracy costs Canada, individuals
TheStar.com – Business – Illiteracy costs Canada, individuals
September 27, 2009. Ellen Roseman
In my work, I often see people who don’t bother to read the key paperwork that governs their business dealings.
They can read, but they’re reluctant to go through documents of more than a few pages in length.
Almost half of Canadian adults (48 per cent) have low literacy skills, according to the Canadian Council on Learning, a non-profit organization based in Ottawa.
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Don’t lose focus on early learning
TheStar.com – Editorials – Don’t lose focus on early learning
September 23, 2009
In Canada, about three-quarters of women with a child under age 6 are in the paid workforce. Yet there are regulated daycare spaces for only 20 per cent of those children, according to a report released last week by a national child care policy research institute.
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A prof’s life is no haze of mint juleps: Today’s universities take teaching not less seriously, but more
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – A prof’s life is no haze of mint juleps: Today’s universities take teaching not less seriously, but more
Sep. 23, 2009. Clifford Orwin
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Province on verge of giving in to teachers [early childhood education]
TheStar.com – Ontario/ParentCentral – Province on verge of giving in to teachers
September 22, 2009. Kristin Rushowy, EDUCATION REPORTER
The province, in a move that would appease the elementary teachers’ union, is close to approving a plan that would put kindergarten teachers at the front of their classroom for the entire school day.
A source says the McGuinty government is “heavily leaning” toward such a model for its promise of full-day learning for Ontario’s youngest students.
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Low marks keeping Canadian boys out of university
NationalPost.com – News – Low marks keeping Canadian boys out of university: study
Published: Sunday, September 20, 2009. Joanne Laucius, Canwest News Service
OTTAWA — For more than a decade, universities have been puzzling over where the boys are as the ratio of female to male students keeps climbing.
About 56% of Canadian undergraduates in 2006 were women, according to the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, a significant change from the early 1970s, when more than two-thirds of university graduates in their mid-20s were men.
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Canadian democracy needs more reality TV [open public debate]
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Full Comment – Canadian democracy needs more reality TV
Posted: September 17, 2009. Thomas Axworthy
Debate is the oxygen of democracy. No vehicle has the potential to inform voters better than televised leaders debates.
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ADHD study ties brain proteins to symptoms
TheGlobeandMail.com – Life – ADHD study ties brain proteins to symptoms
Sep. 12, 2009. Zosia Bielski
A brain-imaging study by U.S. researchers is providing the first definitive proof that patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have lower-than-normal levels of the proteins that regulate our experiences of motivation and reward.
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Making the case against universality [child care]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/Editorial – Making the case against universality: A new report from the OECD undercuts calls for full-day kindergarten and universal child care
Sep. 08, 2009
On the list of timeless political homilies, none is more popular than the one demanding that we spend more on our country’s children. But which children? When? And how much?
Last week an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development report, titled “Doing Better for Children,” attempted to answer these tough questions.
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Province supports integrated childcare and learning: Minister
TheStar.com – Ontario/parentcentral.ca – Province supports integrated childcare and learning: Minister
September 02, 2009. Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter
Ontario Education Minister Kathleen Wynne says the province supports a plan to turn schools into community hubs for families and children from birth to age 12, as recommended by provincial early learning advisor Charles Pascal.
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Low blow from `top five’ universities
TheStar.com – Opinion – Low blow from `top five’ universities
September 01, 2009. James Turk, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS
There is a fundamental crisis facing all of Canada’s universities and colleges today, and that crisis is chronic underfunding.
Most institutions understand this, as do students and their families, but the point seems to have been lost on the presidents of the so-called “top five” (Toronto, UBC, Alberta, McGill and Montreal).
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