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Canada’s education spending: Going up, but is it going to the right places?
Boards have increased their spending quite sharply over the past decade. In Canada as a whole, expenditures have increased 53 per cent – or 5.3 per cent a year, a rate much higher than inflation… the spending increase was not about having more kids to serve. Teachers and administrators got some of the increase, but not all of it… The area that actually grew the most was capital outlays, which were up by 271 per cent over 10 years
Tags: budget, economy, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax, youth
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Chapter and verse, Catholic school funding’s unfair
… the principal reason Ontario should do away with Catholic school funding is not financial… As the Canadian Civil Liberties Association has noted, the origin of Catholic school funding in Ontario lies in a mid-19th century desire to protect religious freedom and equality, as both concepts were then conceived. But the continued application of that constitutional compromise “only serves to erode those very principles today.”
Tags: budget, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Feds to double number of international students
More diplomatic, visa-processing and marketing resources will be shifted to China, Vietnam, India, Brazil, Mexico, and the Middle East-North Africa region, including Turkey, in order to help recruit the world’s best and brightest… The goal is to boost the number of international students and academic researchers to more than 450,000 by 2022, which translates into a huge cash injection for universities due in part to the lofty tuitions paid by non-Canadians.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration
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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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Schools must break the cycle of poverty
First, we should stop segregation… we segregate students in two ways. The first is effectively based on income, as we force students to attend the school near to where they live… second method of segregation is based on academics… there is an academic hierarchy with “collegiate” schools at the top, “business” and “technical” schools at the bottom.
Tags: ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Why Global Learning Scores Matter, and Why They Don’t
… Finnish education is egalitarian and cooperative, and PISA confirms it: gender differences in math and reading achievement are “among the lowest compared to other countries participating in PISA,” and relatively few Finnish students are among the low performers… social-democratic countries compete (very effectively) against the world. We compete against each other, and so do our kids. For us, education is a war of attrition, a kind of endless Hunger Games, and the survivors are the kids with the most advantages.
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Canada needs a revolution in math education
When children decide they aren’t talented in math, their brains work less efficiently: they stop paying attention, taking risks and persevering in the face of difficulty, and they often develop anxieties or behavioural problems. By making everyone feel capable, Mary Jane was able to produce a class of students who were, to a surprising degree, equally capable.
Tags: ideology, standard of living, youth
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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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Two studies of the first two years of full-day kindergarten show it’s helping pupils, especially those most in need, but critics still question the steep $1.5-billion price tag.
Though there were growing pains in the first two years of the program, overall, the kids who needed it most are benefitting from the program… Experts who study early childhood learning and some economists say the province can’t afford not to have full-day kindergarten… The number of “vulnerable” kids as a result of the program is going down
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, participation, poverty, 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.
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