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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.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, youth
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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: It really is our home and native land
We’re hooked on the place we call home and so, very quickly, are new arrivals. First comes belonging to family and then comes Canada… In a testament to how well our multiculturalism still works, EKOS finds no differences in values held by native-born and foreign-born Canadians… [However]… the bonds that hold Canadians together are unravelling, leaving a nation profoundly polarized along fault-lines of age, education and the workplace.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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Ontario bill would extend child welfare services to older youth
Abused teenagers in Ontario may soon have access to crucial support services now that a private member’s bill to raise the “age of protection” for children has won the support of the government… Under the present rules, children’s aid societies cannot take in 16- or 17-year olds unless they are already under the care of a protective society because of past abuses… Children already “in the system” can receive services until the age of 21 — but children in need of help for the first time after their 16th birthday are out of luck.
Tags: ideology, standard of living, youth
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Solving Canada’s adoption crisis
30,000 Canadian children in foster or institutional care… If they “age out” of care at age 16 or 17, without becoming part of a family, the odds rise dramatically that they will fall prey to many social ills. Criminal activity, homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse, teen pregnancy — all become more likely. Ironically, this is likely to lead to another generation of children living out their lives in foster or institutional care, as their parents won’t be able to provide for them.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, homelessness, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Breaking the poverty cycle
… the Youth Futures program… help[s] children living in social housing get out of the rut… The seven-month program offers high school kids leadership training, CPR courses and paid part-time jobs to let them get their bearings. Each teen can also spend two weeks at a university or college campus taking courses that show them their options after graduating. “That makes it easier for them to demystify what it’s like to go beyond high school and gives them the supports they need to be successful.”
Tags: housing, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Will technology provide the path to prosperity?
… the cognoscenti still did not believe the service sector could ever create good jobs on a massive scale. Yet, in less than a decade, the Internet was doing just that… Entire new job categories sprung up, post-manufacturing service jobs more akin to the work of lawyers or journalists than those manning fast-food cash registers. These allowed twentysomethings to become coders and webmasters, and out-earn their middle-class parents.
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living, youth
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Could Ottawa’s balanced budget help provinces reduce deficits?
The federal government… plans to shrink the federal role further, making future federal tax cuts virtually inevitable. However, it is an open question as to whether the total tax burden should decline before provincial deficits are eliminated… Government borrowing today will result in higher debt payments in the future, either through interest or principal repayment. Thus, deficits benefit current taxpayers at the expense of future ones.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, youth
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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.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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No shortage of workers – just a shortage of training
… the studies agree that the extent of skills shortages in Canada today is greatly exaggerated. Both question the need for large numbers of temporary foreign workers… Graduates from our postsecondary education system, together with new immigrants, will more or less match job vacancies opening up due to the retirement of highly skilled workers. And employers can be expected to minimize shortages as they emerge by investing in capital and skills so as to raise productivity.
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living, youth
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