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What I learned at law school: The poor need not apply
… what does poverty feel like? Usually it starts with anger. You are angry at yourself, your family, and the indifferent forces that eventually grind you down. You push against these feelings because you don’t have the luxury – you have to keep on. You feel vulnerable. You teeter between risks not taken because the difference between failure and success is homelessness. Or you take stupid risks because you have nothing to lose… anger and envy will paralyze you. You need to deal with it somehow.
Tags: 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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Ottawa set to enforce standards for schools on reserves
The Conservative government is proposing an overhaul of education on First Nations reserves to bring schools up to provincial standards, with Ottawa temporarily taking over schools that fall short… Under the new act, the councils will continue to be responsible for schools on their reserves. They can maintain the status quo if they wish, but the act empowers them to contract the job out to a provincial school board or to a private company if they prefer.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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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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Canadians have most degrees, highest tuition fees: reports
“While Canada continues to do well in terms of the number of students who go on to university and college, there are some real questions about the long-term sustainability of students and families being asked to pay what, according to the OECD, are some of the highest tuition fees in the world.”
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, youth
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New research shows positive impact of faculty associations
The Impact of Unionization on University Performance: A Cross-Sectional Time Series Analysis… shows that unionization leads to a more efficient and effective institution, while promoting student success… unionization has a “statistically significant impact on the budgetary mix between administration and instruction.” … unionized faculty play a stronger role in the management of an institution, and tend to keep expenditures more focused on teaching and learning.
Tags: budget, participation, standard of living
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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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Full-day kindergarten is no magic bullet
Universal early education is widely regarded as a magic bullet that will level the playing field between the haves and have-nots, reduce income inequality, build human capital and ensure that more of our children succeed in the scary new world of the 21st century. Educators, economists and politicians all say so. But what does the evidence say? … a 2010 meta-study by four Duke University authors found that… Kids did better in Grade 1. But their advantage quickly faded.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, standard of living, 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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