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Falling enrolment = close surplus schools. Right? Wrong!
One solution would be to seek partnerships with other education institutions, social service agencies, and community groups to establish multi-usage of school facilities and cost-sharing. Keep small neighbourhood schools open by sharing building space with others. Make more effective use of technology to provide enriched curriculum in smaller schools… “Smaller schools are generally better for… student outcomes and most organizational outcomes as well.”
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Inequality exists in Ontario’s publicly-funded school system: advocacy group
… students in schools with high average family incomes have a greater chance of participating in a band or choir… and to take academic courses needed in order to have a wide range of choices after graduation. there has been an increasing assumption that parents will raise funds to augment the system or pay fees to cover things such as trips or extracurricular activities..
Tags: philanthropy, poverty, standard of living, youth
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The art and science of giving it all away
… all the social ills we abhorred — poverty, family violence, addiction — stem from unwholesome conditions and influences kids face in the early stages of their lives. It followed, then, that if we want to produce a peaceful, prosperous society, we have to try to create a system where children are well-nurtured, well-cared-for, loved, touched and stimulated to meet the requirements of what we know they need for healthy development.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Canada’s universities have been doing more with less… but can they keep doing so?
In Ontario alone, 44 new programs were introduced in 2012 — just at the master’s and PhD levels. These programs are in emerging areas such as health science policy, non-profit leadership, community relations in extractive industries, palliative nursing, health industry management and design engineering… But by 2010, university attainment rates… put Canada 15th among OECD countries. Our competitive advantage is eroding because we are not ensuring the financial sustainability of universities so that they can continue growing at global rates.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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The righteous anger of young men
Thinkers argued that tyrannical ambition, military strife and civil war were caused by denying human beings their basic right to pursue their own material self-interest. Once they enjoyed the balm of security and well-being, the sources of aggression would melt away… What if it were rooted in the capacity of young men for righteous anger, harnessed in the service of what they fervently believe to be a divine mission to bring justice to the world?
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Aboriginal education vexes Canada (and Paul Martin)
Ottawa compares what it pays for each reserve student with provincial averages and denies that a problem exists. Mr. Martin insists that the comparison should be made with per capita funding for remote and rural schools, which always require more money than urban ones. Factor in geography, to say nothing of the specific additional challenges of educating young people on reserves, and Mr. Martin believes the gap is $2,000 to $3,000 per student.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, youth
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Public investment in Ontario universities continues to decline
Overall funding for universities, correcting for inflation, is set to decline by 2.5 per cent over the next four years. If current enrolment trends continue, per-student funding from the government will actually decline by seven per cent over the same period… this means that universities in Ontario will be forced to grapple with steadily declining resources, and corresponding threats to educational quality and affordability… the government’s current course is harmful to students, to families, and the province.
Tags: budget, economy, standard of living, youth
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Why the Fuss Over the D.S.M.-5?
Parents press physicians to give children diagnoses, falsely inflating numbers of those with autism and A.D.H.D… Diagnoses also figure in disability determination… The media will trumpet the release of the new D.S.M., but practicing psychiatrists will largely regard it as a nonevent. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for other institutions — insurance companies, state and government agencies, and even the courts — which will continue to imbue the D.S.M. with a precision and an authority it does not have.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, pensions, rights, youth
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The Aboriginal population: younger and more troubled
Forty-nine per cent of First Nations people live on reserve, where education is provided by band councils using federal funds – and where other studies found that about 60 per cent fail to graduate…. lack of education is but one facet of the troubled lives of many aboriginals… “In order for the numbers to change, the government is going to have to address root causes such as poverty and discrimination…The focus cannot just be on education. It has to be broader than that.”
Tags: crime prevention, Health, homelessness, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Ontario’s funding for universities continues to slide
University funding as a percentage of GDP still lags well behind the rest of Canada, despite the government’s supposed interest in innovation… 2010-11 is the latest period in which we can compare Ontario with other provinces. That year Ontario government operating support to universities –as a proportion of provincial Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – was about 15 per cent below the average in the rest of Canada.
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