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Act on full day learning
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Act on full day learning
August 31, 2009.
When Premier Dalton McGuinty committed to full-day learning for 4- and 5-year-olds he painted a compelling vision: An integrated system to “help our kids succeed in school down the road, save families time and money and free up thousands of licensed child care spaces.”
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Will all-day school be ready for 2010?
TheStar.com – Ontario/parentcentral.ca – Will all-day school be ready for 2010?
August 31, 2009. Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter
Six-year-old Ethan Podolsky can’t wait to start Grade 1 next week and go to school all day for the first time.
And his mother, Elissa, hopes her 3-year-old daughter, Lauren, will also get to spend all day at school when she starts junior kindergarten next year.
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Early learners need teachers
TheStar.com – Opinion – Early learners need teachers
August 28, 2009. Sam Hammond, PRESIDENT OF THE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ FEDERATION OF ONTARIO
When Premier Dalton McGuinty campaigned for re-election in 2007 he promised Ontario parents “full-day kindergarten.” Perhaps McGuinty was being casual in his use of words or perhaps he knew, as polls show, that parents and the general public overwhelmingly favour a full-day kindergarten program with a qualified teacher in the classroom.
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No to a second-tier educational model
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – No to a second-tier educational model: Competition and collaboration are good – why import an intellectual caste system?
Aug. 26, 2009. Roseann O’Reilly Runte
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School test results raise red flag
TheGlobeandMail.com – National – School test results raise red flag: One-third of Ontario’s elementary students not meeting provincial standards in reading, writing and math with many unable to catch up once they fall behind
Aug. 26, 2009. Caroline Alphonso
About one-third of Ontario’s elementary school students are not meeting provincial standards in reading, writing and math – and once they fall behind, many have a hard time catching up, new test results show.
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Teachers and early educators can be classroom partners
TheStar.com – Opinion – Teachers and early educators can be classroom partners: Both roles are needed to deliver high-quality early education to Ontario’s children
August 25, 2009. Rachel Langford, DIRECTOR OF RYERSON UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
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Public schools need public funds
TheStar.com – Opinion/Letter – Public schools need public funds
August 24, 2009.
Re:Private schools get public funds, Aug. 21
Public schools in my community have rough, patchy, pitted playing fields, pitiful landscaping, and windows, walls and washrooms in need of repair, upgrade or replacement. Yet Ontario has begun designating public funds to fix up private schools. Premier Dalton McGuinty, this is disappointing.
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Fighting over the kids [early childhood education]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Fighting over the kids
August 21, 2009.
Two months ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty’s early learning adviser proposed a future where our schools operate as community hubs for families, with 4- and 5-year-olds benefiting from a full day of learning.
Yet, even before the government has committed to fully implementing this welcome vision, elementary teachers are out to make it so expensive that it is unlikely the government could ever afford it.
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Inequality does not doom schools
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/Editorial – Inequality does not doom schools
Aug. 20, 2009.
When poor schools exceed expectations, when schools in affluent areas do not rise above mediocrity, the public has a right to know – and to learn why. Modern, provincewide testing of the reading, writing and math skills of elementary school students is about 15 years old in Canada, but the public knows little about how schools with similar socio-economic environments rank against one another.
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The perils of transferring credits
TheStar.com – Opinion – The perils of transferring credits
August 11, 2009. Brian E. Brown, OUTGOING PRESIDENT OF THE ONTARIO CONFEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY ASSOCIATIONS
A community college engineering student is transferring to university in order to earn an engineering degree. The student wants the university to credit her or him with at least some of the course work done at college.
It’s called credit transfer.
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