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Programs helping more at-risk students graduate
TheStar.com – Education – Programs helping more at-risk students graduate: Mentorship and peer tutoring boost overall rates of graduation at college, university in last 5 years
May 15, 2009. Louise Brown, Education Reporter
They are the first in their families ever to go to university and the first to admit it is not easy.
But a mentoring program for “first-generation” kids like them, plus the friendship of the campus United Black Students club helped Diandra Hayles and Erik Flowchild feel part of Ryerson University.
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Daycare buckpassing
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Daycare buckpassing
May 14, 2009
The provincial government has come through with $18 million to save 8,500 daycare spaces that were about to close because of expiring federal funding. That is good news.
But as welcome as Tuesday’s announcement is, the problem has not been solved. The provincial funding is only a reprieve, not a long term solution. And it just maintains the existing number of affordable child care spaces when what is needed is a dramatic expansion, with 15,000 families in Toronto alone on the wait list.
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`Tough’ drug bill all about politics
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – `Tough’ drug bill all about politics
May 10, 2009
After 35 years of experience with mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes, Americans are beginning to abandon this discredited approach. Yet Stephen Harper’s Conservative government now wants to saddle Canadians with these expensive and ineffective laws.
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Mandatory minimums: three good reasons why jail alone is a bad idea [illicit drugs]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/Special Comment – Mandatory minimums: three good reasons why jail alone is a bad idea
May 11, 2009. PAUL GARFINKEL
Public discussion of illicit drugs typically relies on simplistic and false distinctions between drug users and evil drug dealers, or victims and victimizers. The reality is not that simple.
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`Knowledge’ jobs alone are not enough
TheStar.com – Opinion – `Knowledge’ jobs alone are not enough
May 08, 2009. Carol Goar
The centrepiece of Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff’s embryonic election platform – “a knowledge society” – is safe, smart and stylish.
It can be stretched to include everything from basic literacy to advanced scientific research. It can be sold as the remedy to Canada’s economic woes, the key to global competitiveness and the hope for future generations. It can be used to brand the Liberals as the party of ideas, creativity and boundless ambition.
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Don’t target textbooks
TheStar.com – Opinion – Don’t target textbooks
May 08, 2009
Hardly a week goes by in Premier Dalton McGuinty’s political life where he doesn’t find cause to note that Ontario’s future prosperity depends on how well we educate our students today.
That’s why it is so curious – and unfortunate – that he has decided to cut back on grants for students who are struggling to afford a post-secondary education.
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Education our only magic elixir
TheStar.com – Columnist – Education our only magic elixir
May 07, 2009. James Travers. Ottawa
These are peculiar times. Pigs catch swine flu from humans, Canadians who didn’t buy Chryslers (or Fiats) now own a pricey piece of the company and while we struggle to save feudal Afghanistan, nuclear Pakistan is failing.
Connecting those scattered dots is the disturbing common denominator of misunderstanding. A convenient label for a complex virus is so confusing the flu’s cause and effects that consumers are afraid to eat pork.
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Why did Matthew miss 39 days of school? [Learning Disabilities]
TheStar.com – Living/ParentCentral.ca – Why did Matthew miss 39 days of school?
April 25, 2009. Andrea Gordon, Family issues reporter
Grade 7 has been a banner year for 12-year-old Matthew Leaton. His project on earthquakes was a winner of the science fair at his Brampton middle school. In February, he was chosen to make a presentation at the assembly honouring Black History Month.
And eight months into the school year, he has been suspended only once.
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Sponsors for schools
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/Editorial – Sponsors for schools
April 15, 2009.
Allowing corporate sponsors to invade the public schools in return for naming rights, as Toronto’s school board has begun to do, may seem, at first blush, like the epitome of crass. “This theatre a project of McDonald’s.” “This swimming pool courtesy of Coca-Cola.” “This playing field brought to you by Kellogg’s.” But schools in less affluent neighbourhoods need help. Corporate sponsorships have great potential to give them that help, if done properly.
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Beware the echo recession
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/ Special Comment – Beware the echo recession
April 13, 2009. FRANK GRAVES
Now that we are deep into what appears to be a particularly savage recession, it is worth looking back at the last recession to see what we can learn. When I return to my polling data from the 1990s, the lesson is clear: The public’s sense of economic security is a fragile thing, and it does not always mirror what is happening in the “real” economy.
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