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Learning problems not always easy to identify [TESTING 1, 2, 3. PART 1: Identifying problems]
TheStar.com – ParentCentral.ca – Learning problems not always easy to identify
March 05, 2009. Andrea Gordon, Family Issues Reporter
This is a portrait of a child moving from grade to grade without learning. There are thousands more like him, slipping into indifference and insecurity while schools rubber stamp their progress.
When her son talks, Linda listens. But she knows behaviour – and a mother’s intuition – often speak louder than words.
Linda has listened for years while Josh, 13, claimed he didn’t need extra help in school.
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Milestone for literacy movement
TheStar.com – Opinion – Milestone for literacy movement
March 04, 2009. Carol Goar
It was a celebration of survival. Success would be too grandiose a claim.
Canada’s literacy movement is 150 years old.
It has withstood economic storms, hostile governments and overbearing educators. It has managed without money, facilities or paid staff. It has taken root in unlikely places and thrived in hard times.
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Race and poverty matter as early as Grade 3
TheStar.com – ParentCentral.ca – Race and poverty matter as early as Grade 3
February 28, 2009. Kristin Rushowy, EDUCATION REPORTER
Students who live in poverty or come from certain racial backgrounds are falling behind in school as early as Grade 3, says a groundbreaking survey of Toronto’s public elementary schools.
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Ontario commits to 3,300 graduate spots
TheGlobeandMail.com – National – Ontario commits to 3,300 graduate spots
February 27, 2009. Canadian Press
TORONTO — Ontario says it’s committing $51.6 million to add some 3,300 graduate spaces at its universities over the next few years.
The government says the investment will enable more students to study in high-demand sectors such as engineering and environmental studies. The money, from the $6.2-billion Reaching Higher program, will create 1,925 new master’s spaces and 1,373 new PhD spaces.
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Diet could cut cancer rates
TheStar.com – Diet could cut cancer rates
February 26, 2009. Sheryl Ubelacker, THE CANADIAN PRESS
A huge proportion of many common cancers could be prevented through diet, exercise and healthy weight maintenance, but it will take co-ordinated efforts by all sectors of society to reduce the burden of cancer worldwide, a sweeping international report says.
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One school’s belief in a fixable brain
TheStar.com – ParentCentral.ca – LEARNING ALTERNATIVE: One school’s belief in a fixable brain. This week, researchers raised the possibility of a learning disorder drug. Arrowsmith School agrees a treatment is possible, but differs in approach
February 25, 2009. Andrea Gordon, FAMILY ISSUES REPORTER
Eleven-year-old Dean VanHerpe peers at the celebrated Norman Rockwell scene in his hand. He takes a deep breath and tries to translate it into words.
“There’s a boy at the doctor’s office and he has to get a shot in his butt,” Dean tells his teacher.
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Supporting our scientists
NationalPost.com – Opinion – Supporting our scientists
February 25, 2009. Gary Goodyear
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Canadians open door to learning-disorder drug
TheGlobeandMail.com – National – Canadians open door to learning-disorder drug
February 24, 2009. CAROLYN ABRAHAM
An eight-year effort by Canadian scientists has connected a crucial brain protein with the power to learn, raising the possibility that learning disabilities could be corrected with a drug.
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Getting shovels into the ground and money into more brains
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Getting shovels into the ground and money into more brains
February 18, 2009. JEFFREY SIMPSON
Some Canadian university researchers are up in arms, and their hero is coming to town.
U.S. President Barack Obama, arriving tomorrow in Ottawa, has signed a stimulus package that increases scientific research by $15-billion. In Canada, the Harper government just cut research funding in a budget that sprinkled money everywhere, including $2-billion for buildings on college and university campuses.
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Literacy network struggles to survive
TheStar.com – Opinion – Literacy network struggles to survive
February 11, 2009. Carol Goar
Its financial lifeline has been cut, but the Canadian Centre of Excellence for Literacy refuses to die.
Its director Don Jamieson, an audiologist at the University of Western Ontario, received the bad news a year ago: Ottawa was pulling the plug on the cross-country network of researchers, educators, librarians, speech therapists and literacy advocates that he and his colleagues had spent eight years building.
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