Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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Public schools need public funds
TheStar.com – Opinion/Letter – Public schools need public funds
August 24, 2009.
Re:Private schools get public funds, Aug. 21
Public schools in my community have rough, patchy, pitted playing fields, pitiful landscaping, and windows, walls and washrooms in need of repair, upgrade or replacement. Yet Ontario has begun designating public funds to fix up private schools. Premier Dalton McGuinty, this is disappointing.
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Fighting over the kids [early childhood education]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Fighting over the kids
August 21, 2009.
Two months ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty’s early learning adviser proposed a future where our schools operate as community hubs for families, with 4- and 5-year-olds benefiting from a full day of learning.
Yet, even before the government has committed to fully implementing this welcome vision, elementary teachers are out to make it so expensive that it is unlikely the government could ever afford it.
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Inequality does not doom schools
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/Editorial – Inequality does not doom schools
Aug. 20, 2009.
When poor schools exceed expectations, when schools in affluent areas do not rise above mediocrity, the public has a right to know – and to learn why. Modern, provincewide testing of the reading, writing and math skills of elementary school students is about 15 years old in Canada, but the public knows little about how schools with similar socio-economic environments rank against one another.
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The perils of transferring credits
TheStar.com – Opinion – The perils of transferring credits
August 11, 2009. Brian E. Brown, OUTGOING PRESIDENT OF THE ONTARIO CONFEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY ASSOCIATIONS
A community college engineering student is transferring to university in order to earn an engineering degree. The student wants the university to credit her or him with at least some of the course work done at college.
It’s called credit transfer.
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Creative thinking on school closings
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Creative thinking on school closings
August 10, 2009.
People don’t like to see a school close in their community. But to ensure high quality education for students in this era of declining enrolment, some schools must.
Over the last seven years, 90,000 fewer children have enroled in Ontario public schools, and the trend is continuing with 56,000 fewer students expected over the next four years. That is the equivalent of hundreds of empty schools across the province.
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Atleo sets an example for Indian education reform
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Atleo sets an example for Indian education reform: The challenge is how to lift on-reserve learning and outcomes
Jul. 28, 2009. Jeffrey Simpson
Shawn Atleo, the new head of the Assembly of First Nations, made improvement in Indian education one of his campaign priorities.
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A real-estate guide to incarceration: Mapping where inmates come from…
TheStar.com – Crime – A real-estate guide to incarceration: Mapping where inmates come from is no easy task in Canada. But a Star analysis of jail sentences reveals high-price neighbourhoods in the GTA and provides a street-level look at the costs of crime
July 18, 2009. Jim Rankin, STAFF REPORTER
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Autism and schools
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Autism and schools
July 06, 2009
There are more autistic children on a waiting list to get government-funded therapy than there are children actually receiving the one-on-one help.
The latest provincial government statistics show 1,306 children are getting intensive behavioural intervention (IBI), while 1,513 are waiting for it. Another 389 kids are waiting to be assessed so they can qualify for therapy – and earn a spot on the waiting list.
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This Business of Kids Inc.: You don’t know just how rich the returns to investments in children are
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – This Business of Kids Inc.: You don’t know just how rich the returns to investments in children are
Jun. 30, 200. Daniel Trefler
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Knowledge Infrastructure Program Map [AUCC]
Connect2Canada – Canada Watch – Knowledge Infrastructure Program Map
June 26, 2009.
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