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Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2024
In the never-ending right-wing-led campaigns against social progress, public schools are frequently targeted. And there’s a reason: while battered and underfunded, these institutions are still…
Costly Gambles
Perhaps you’ve heard the one about Harvard University? That now it’s basically a hedge fund, but with a school attached?
Connect the dots: School boards, democracy, and human rights
On a gray day last September, I attended a counter-protest at the Grand Parade in Halifax. I was there as part of “Education Saves Lives”…
From battleground to common ground
In the neverending right-wing-led campaigns against social progress, public schools are frequently targeted. And there’s a reason: while battered and underfunded, these institutions are still…
Whack-a-moles and hydra: Searching for a new privatization metaphor in education
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. (Trans. by Massumi, B.)., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Kovach, M. (2021). Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations,…
School grounds turned battlegrounds: War, conflict and peace education
Months after the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas fighters on Israelis, and the ensuing and ongoing bombardment of Gaza by Israeli Defence Forces that…
Will Saskatchewan Fund the Future of its Universities?
It won’t surprise anybody that reads OS/OS that the costs of a university education is increasingly being transferred from governments on to the backs of…
Despite the overblown AI hype, we’re not ready for what comes next
When OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022 it sparked a frenzy of hype and panic about the capabilities of generative artificial…
Canada is cutting international student visas—and that’s bad policy
On Monday January 22, 2024 Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller announced several major changes to the federal international student program. Amongst these…
Striking Saskatchewan teachers are fighting for students, too
For the first time in more than a decade and for only the fourth time since 1973, people in Saskatchewan are facing interruptions to schooling due…
Sectoral bargaining for child care workers would help fix staffing shortages
If governments want to increase child care availability, they should make changes that make it easier and more effective to unionize the sector
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