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Fine diagnosis, disappointing remedy [“Literacy Matters”]
TheStar.com – Opinion – Fine diagnosis, disappointing remedy
October 14, 2009. Carol Goar
Over the past decade, the TD Bank Financial Group has earned a remarkable reputation as the best social policy think-tank in the country.
Its research is the gold standard. Its economists bring the same rigour to poverty and homelessness as they apply to credit flows and commodity prices.
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MP plans to save the world without help of Bono, Bob Geldof [capacity building]
TheStar.com – News/Canada – MP plans to save the world without help of Bono, Bob Geldof
October 14, 2009. Bruce Campion-Smith
OTTAWA–With apologies to Bob Geldof and Bono, Keith Martin thinks he has a better strategy for helping developing nations. And it’s not about writing cheques for impoverished nations.
Instead, the Liberal MP is pitching a plan to tap the talents found on university campuses and get them involved on the ground in developing nations.
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Mr. Premier, don’t drag your heels on early learning report
TheStar.com – Opinion – Mr. Premier, don’t drag your heels on early learning report
October 05, 2009. David Crombie, Margaret Norrie McCain
In the next few days, Premier Dalton McGuinty will be making an announcement that could begin a revolution in education and help define his own legacy as a leader.
If the premier follows the blueprint laid out by his early learning adviser, not only will he set Ontario on a course to become one of the best places in the world to raise a child, he will up the province’s competitiveness quotient in the same breath.
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Illiteracy costs Canada, individuals
TheStar.com – Business – Illiteracy costs Canada, individuals
September 27, 2009. Ellen Roseman
In my work, I often see people who don’t bother to read the key paperwork that governs their business dealings.
They can read, but they’re reluctant to go through documents of more than a few pages in length.
Almost half of Canadian adults (48 per cent) have low literacy skills, according to the Canadian Council on Learning, a non-profit organization based in Ottawa.
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Don’t lose focus on early learning
TheStar.com – Editorials – Don’t lose focus on early learning
September 23, 2009
In Canada, about three-quarters of women with a child under age 6 are in the paid workforce. Yet there are regulated daycare spaces for only 20 per cent of those children, according to a report released last week by a national child care policy research institute.
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A prof’s life is no haze of mint juleps: Today’s universities take teaching not less seriously, but more
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – A prof’s life is no haze of mint juleps: Today’s universities take teaching not less seriously, but more
Sep. 23, 2009. Clifford Orwin
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Province on verge of giving in to teachers [early childhood education]
TheStar.com – Ontario/ParentCentral – Province on verge of giving in to teachers
September 22, 2009. Kristin Rushowy, EDUCATION REPORTER
The province, in a move that would appease the elementary teachers’ union, is close to approving a plan that would put kindergarten teachers at the front of their classroom for the entire school day.
A source says the McGuinty government is “heavily leaning” toward such a model for its promise of full-day learning for Ontario’s youngest students.
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Low marks keeping Canadian boys out of university
NationalPost.com – News – Low marks keeping Canadian boys out of university: study
Published: Sunday, September 20, 2009. Joanne Laucius, Canwest News Service
OTTAWA — For more than a decade, universities have been puzzling over where the boys are as the ratio of female to male students keeps climbing.
About 56% of Canadian undergraduates in 2006 were women, according to the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, a significant change from the early 1970s, when more than two-thirds of university graduates in their mid-20s were men.
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How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada
conferenceboard.ca – website/home – This Website – How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada – assesses Canada’s quality of life compared with that of its peer countries.
We publish an overall report card as well as individual ones that measure performances in six categories: Economy, Innovation, Environment, Education and Skills, Health and Society. We release the report card for each category individually throughout the year.
What’s New
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Canadian democracy needs more reality TV [open public debate]
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Full Comment – Canadian democracy needs more reality TV
Posted: September 17, 2009. Thomas Axworthy
Debate is the oxygen of democracy. No vehicle has the potential to inform voters better than televised leaders debates.
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