Education Project
Monitoring the privatization of public education – and resistance to it
With a wide circle of research associates representing all aspects of the education sector, accessible research, case studies and thoughtful commentary and analysis, the Education Project provides a welcome—and often humorous—balance to the rhetoric of market-based education reform that continues to erode our public education system at all levels.
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La dépendance des écoles publiques à l’égard des fonds du secteur privé suscite des préoccupations au sujet de l’équité, de la responsabilisation — rapport
CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT Toronto—La vaste gamme d’activités de financement privé qui ont cours dans les écoles publiques du Canada pourrait menacer l’éducation équitable, de haute qualité et…
Dependence on private dollars in public classrooms raises concerns about equity, accountability—report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Toronto—A wide variety of private fundraising initiatives in Canada’s public schools could threaten equitable, high quality, publicly accountable education for students across the…
La Commercialisation des écoles canadiennes : qui mène la barque
qui mène la barque? Download 1.76 MB48 pages Attachments Résumé — La Commercialisation des écoles canadiennes : qui mène la barque…
Commercialism in Canadian Schools
Who’s Calling the Shots? Download 1.16 MB42 pages Attachments Executive Summary — Commercialism in Canadian Schools: Who’s Calling the Shots?…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2006
Education’s Iron Cage and Its Dismantling In the New Global Order Over the last three decades, global capitalism has carried out a full-scale assault on public school systems around the…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2006
Riding the Tiger of Educational Accountability in Nova Scotia Attachments Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2006 – Table of Contents…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2005
Schooling for Democracy: One Size Does Not Fit All It’s all over the papers – young people aren’t voting. It’s the fault of the media leaving negative perceptions. It’s the…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2005
The Many Faces of Privatization Attachments Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2005 — Table of Contents…
Challenging McWorld
Second Edition Download 543.81 KB 206 pages Today’s youth live, communicate and act in a wired world of corporate logos, symbols and branding. “McWorld” is the symbolic term used to…
Tuition fee increases further limit access to higher education–report
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–Manitoba takes the lead and Nova Scotia remains in last place in Missing Pieces: An alternative guide to Canadian post-secondary education. In the fifth year…
Missing Pieces V
An alternative Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary Education Download 879.51 KB 116 pages Missing Pieces, an annual report by Denise Doherty-Delorme and Erika Shaker, ranks provinces according to their level of…
Passing the Test
The False Promises of Standardized Testing Download 863.53 KB316 pages…
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