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Five steps to better schools on First Nations reserves
… Atleo set out five conditions for an acceptable Education Act. These conditions are: 1. First Nations control of education; 2. Assurance of stable and adequate funding; 3. Recognition of the importance of First Nations language and culture; 4. “Jointly determined” oversight of First Nations education rather than unilateral federal oversight; and 5. Ongoing meaningful engagement between First Nations and Ottawa on education matters.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, standard of living
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Canada must stop being ‘a school that never issues report cards’
Last month, OECD announced results of member country scores on adult competencies, including numeracy, literacy and problem-solving… Canadian 16-24 year olds… perform uniformly below the mean for that same group in other developed countries. In literacy, Canadian young adults rank 14 of 21; in numeracy 15 of 21… Canadians with postsecondary education also underperform their peers in Europe, the United States and East Asia.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Canada’s education tax breaks are flunking
… it makes sense to give more to kids from low-income families – the opposite of what the tax credits currently do. One simple change would be to make the tax credits refundable. This would allow individuals to claim them regardless of earned income. And this would make the credits more efficient and equitable, since it would allow all students, not just those whose parents earn enough to have a tax liability, to claim them sooner rather than later.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Time to negotiate a schools act for First Nations
In effect, it defines for reserve schools the equivalent of a provincial schools act… The act says a lot about what First Nations must do, but it says little about what the government must do to make this possible. The act makes no commitment to adequate funding; instead it states only that the formula for school funding will be determined by regulation… the federal ministry has little educational expertise and no demonstrated capacity to manage schools.
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, standard of living
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‘The problem of Indian administration,’ then and now
The Indian educational enterprise is… is less concerned with a conventional school system and more with the understanding of human beings… At every turn, the report posited White goals and standards as the measure against which Native people were to be measured and in each instance, Indians were found wanting. The Hawthorne report revealed the logical fallacy that always has haunted Indian policy: that all people yearn for the individual freedom to pursue economic goals
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights
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Ontario’s professors concerned about new report’s projected rise in tuition and ancillary fees
Most provinces, including Ontario, have introduced complex and unpredictable financial aid measures such as the Ontario Tuition Grant instead of universal measures to address affordability concerns… “even when the Ontario Tuition Grant is taken into account, the Liberal government’s policy of year over year tuition fee increases has eroded the affordability of university education in Ontario.”
Tags: budget, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax, youth
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‘Ghetto Schooling’ [Jean Anyon]
“The structural basis for failure in inner-city schools is political, economic and cultural, and must be changed before meaningful school improvement projects can be successfully implemented,” she wrote in a 1995 article in the journal Teachers College Record. “Educational reforms cannot compensate for the ravages of society… To really improve ghetto children’s chances, then… we must ultimately… eliminate poverty… the underlying causes of ghettoization.”
Tags: participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Women struggle in information vacuum
“The difficulty of collecting data about violence against women has been a barrier… However, the data that do exist tell us three things very clearly: this problem is big, it comes at a high cost, and we are making little or no progress in putting a stop to it.”… This problem is going to worsen as Statistics Canada keeps phasing out surveys
Tags: crime prevention, rights, women
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Specialize or risk losing funding, Ontario tells universities and colleges
The draft framework for greater “differentiation” between schools was sent to higher-education leaders for feedback… Universities are ultimately free to set their own course, but where the province disagrees with a school’s direction, it can steer behaviour with levers such as funding, allocating extra student spaces and approvals for new programs… The aim is to boost schools’ quality and competitiveness, but the impetus is clearly financial.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology
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Ontario’s university funding falls further behind
By 2011-12, Ontario universities received 35 per cent less operating funding from the provincial government than the average in the rest of Canada… In 2000-01, the gap was “only” 20 per cent. It has now increased to 38 per cent… Much of the funding shortfall has been made up with skyrocketing tuition fees… the contribution from student tuition and fees – high as they are – still leaves a significant gap… in 2011-12 it was 16 per cent.
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