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Children ask Harper to ‘Have a Heart’ and improve education on reserves
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
February 15, 2012
The Have a Heart campaign aims to raise awareness about the problems facing aboriginal children in government care. It’s part of a major publicity campaign surrounding a Federal Court judicial review brought by aboriginal child-advocacy groups against a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decision to dismiss a case against the federal government.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Is all-day kindergarten really a leg up?
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Feb. 14, 2012
According to its advocates, all-day kindergarten… offers a crucial leg up for disadvantaged children. For this reason alone, it’s essential to our economic prosperity… In 2002, the U.S. government launched the massive Head Start Impact Study to determine how well the program worked. The final report… found that the modest gains achieved by Head Start students wore off by the end of Grade 1 – they wound up no further ahead than those who weren’t in the program… the benefits of early childhood education have been vastly overstated. It’s not a magic bullet.
Tags: budget, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Doubling teaching loads a bad idea
Monday, February 13th, 2012
Feb 11 2012
No decent academic, never mind a high-flyer, will take a job here to see his teaching load doubled and research time reduced to 10 per cent. Similarly, marketable faculty now teaching here will exit the province faster than a captain can desert a listing ship… The training of doctoral students is a highly labour-intensive activity, already poorly remunerated in many universities. Doubling the teaching load will make doctoral training impossible. Finally, research brings in huge sums from public and private sources…
Tags: budget, standard of living
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National panel on native education gives Ottawa a failing grade
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Feb 10 2012
… this government, the one before it, and so on, know everything that’s in this report. Native education is a disaster and always has been. Ottawa basically hands off far too little money to hundreds of reserves (regardless of their capabilities) to operate individual schools and pays no attention at all to the terrible outcomes for children. Less than 40 per cent of native students — half the rate for non-natives — graduate from high school. It’s a tragedy for them and a terrible waste of potential for the country.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Why underfund? [1st Nations Schools]
Friday, February 10th, 2012
Feb. 10, 2012
If education is a means to alleviate dependency, poverty and social issues, then why does the government continue to underfund education on reserves such as Waterhen Lake? I urge the Prime Minister to make the financial resources available so Waweyekisik can continue its success with students.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, participation, standard of living, youth
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We’re ripe for a great disruption in higher education
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Feb. 04, 2012
Until now, online education has been regarded as the poor stepchild of the higher-education world – widely suspected of being a second-rate substitute for the real thing. But that’s about to change. The digital revolution is going to disrupt higher education in the same way it’s disrupted so many other industries… The digital revolution will make higher education better, cheaper, more accessible, more engaging and far more customized than anything that exists today. It’ll also turn our current institutions upside down.
Tags: globalization, participation, standard of living
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Long-promised Ontario Online Institute still far from launch
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Jan 29 2012
The Ontario Online Institute was announced by the McGuinty government in the 2010 Speech from the Throne and cited again in a speech by MPP John Milloy last May… MPP Glen Murray, the new minister of training, colleges and universities, has mused publicly that one of the government’s promised three new Ontario campuses might be “online.”
Tags: budget, disabilities, participation, standard of living, youth
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Learning to live with ‘boy energy’
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Jan 29 2012
Noting that “boy energy” is often perceived as something “innately disruptive,” Reist has observed that boys, in particular, are seen as threats to the “institutional decorum” of schools, expressed in three terse rules: “sit still, be quiet, and do what you’re told.” Building on recent research in psychology and cognitive studies, he points out that many boys learn kinetically, and that their tendencies to fidget, tap and move while in the classroom is not only normal, but also often advantageous for their learning processes.
Tags: youth
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How Toronto’s boutique academies will work
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Jan. 18, 2012
The Toronto District School Board has opened registration for its new boutique academies – including all-boys, all-girls, sports-focused and music-specialized programs – located at nine elementary schools… the TDSB will be tracking the success of these new academies, both internally, and through research partnerships with Ontario universities, such as Toronto, York and Nipissing… “Producing athletes isn’t our goal, but it will probably be a by-product… TDSB officials hope the boys leadership academy… will keep their male students more engaged through hands-on activities and the provision of role models.
Tags: Health, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Older students not eligible for Ontario tuition rebate
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
Jan 15 2012
That’s the fine print many failed to notice about Queen’s Park’s $430 million rebate plan that gives $1,600 back to university students and $730 back to community college students whose annual family income is below $160,000: it does not apply to students who have been out of high school for more than four years… mature students are excluded, as are part-time students, graduate students and Ontario students enrolled outside the province… Because people with children and aboriginals both tend to be older when they enter post-secondary education, both groups appear worse off under the rebate plan.
Tags: budget, participation, poverty, standard of living
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