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Ontario must stop educators from limiting low-income students’ options
… teens from low-income homes are being sent into the non-academic credit programs when they enter high school, limiting their options for post-secondary education… People for Education found that in schools where the average family income is just $60,000, more than half the students are enrolled in “applied” math, instead of the academic program targeted to university education… It is true that poverty creates a host of social problems, but a proclivity for math or English has nothing to do with a parent’s income.
Tags: ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Low-income ‘streaming’ in Ontario high schools alive and well
“Unless we assume that wealthier students are inherently more academically capable, this correlation (between family income and academic streaming) is disturbing, all the more so given the evidence that suggests that taking applied courses itself may not merely reproduce disadvantage but actively exacerbate the risk of problematic academic outcomes.”
Tags: ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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No Rich Child Left Behind
… widening disparities are not confined to academic outcomes… rich-poor gaps in student participation in sports, extracurricular activities, volunteer work and church attendance have grown sharply as well… It boils down to this: The academic gap is widening because rich students are increasingly entering kindergarten much better prepared to succeed in school than middle-class students… one part of the explanation for this is rising income inequality.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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HEQCO finds that Ontario’s universities are productive, efficient
… the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) reviews the performance of Ontario’s postsecondary education system in terms of access, quality, productivity, and social impact. It confirms … (that) our universities are efficient, productive, and accessible (though more work is needed to ensure participation for under-represented groups, such as Aboriginal and first-generation students)… The paper also continues HEQCO’s narrow focus on labour market outcomes.
Tags: ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Fair play for divorced dads
Apr. 4, 2013
Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin has commissioned a report aimed at overhauling Canada’s family-law system. Its recommendations, which will be officially released later this month, reportedly include strategies for streamlining the legal process, encouraging mediation and reducing litigation… We know much more about the effects of enforced separation from fathers on children than we did even a decade ago… fathering time is highly correlated with positive outcomes for children of divorce.”
Tags: ideology, rights, youth
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Statistics seldom tell the whole story
Apr 05 2013
There is an imbalance, Fallis admits. The average chief executive earns 220 times as much as the average worker. And trouble signals are flashing: swelling food bank use, chronic homelessness, increasing inequality of incomes. But overall, he insists, “the steady reduction in poverty is one of Canada’s great accomplishments of the last 30 years.”
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Reducing Ontario post-secondary tuition fees is the only fair option
Apr 05 2013
Government underfunding has resulted in skyrocketing tuition fees in Ontario. At $7,180, undergraduate tuition in Ontario is more than eight times higher than what average tuition fees were in 1980… The plan presented to government by students would see tuition fees cut by 30 per cent over three years, including a 17-per-cent reduction next year at no additional cost to government. These policy changes would help ensure today’s young people have the same opportunity their parents were given: access to affordable post-secondary education.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living, youth
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Ontario’s most vulnerable children need a watchdog
Mar 31 2013
Roughly 25,000 children in Ontario are cared for by children’s aid societies. Most are poor. Many are scarred by domestic violence, neglect, substance abuse, family strife or the death of their parents. For the most part, Ontario’s 53 children’s aid societies (CAS) do a good job as substitute guardians. But every year brings cases of horrific abuse in foster homes, group homes or relatives’ homes in which children were placed.
Tags: poverty, rights, youth
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Ontario should stop siphoning money from dental fund for poor
Apr 01 2013
With a cynical sleight of hand, the province of Ontario is stripping millions of dollars from a program designed to provide dental care for the working poor and pumping it into sports promotion programs… Teeth are not covered under the Canada Health Act so the costs of dental care are either paid out-of-pocket, covered by employer health insurance or provided to those on social assistance. For low-income families with no coverage, the cost is prohibitive.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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High-school grade inflation balloon ready to pop
Mar. 29 2013
High-school grades are no longer accurate assessments of students’ learning. Grades are pushed up, especially in senior years, by increasingly high entrance requirements for university programs… To a certain extent, we are locked in a vicious cycle. Universities keep publishing ever-higher admissions averages, and high schools keep raising their marks accordingly… High schools need to have some kind of standardization… At its core, the problem with grade inflation is that it does not accurately assess students’ learning.
Tags: standard of living, youth
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