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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For cash and future considerations
Ontario universities and public-private partnerships READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), while promoted as an innovative approach to the provision of public goods and services, are playing a…
For Cash and Future Considerations
Ontario Universities and Public-Private Partnerships Download 335.46 KB 64 pages…
Tuition fee increases further limit access to higher education
Report OTTAWA–Nova Scotia’s record in post-secondary education has dropped that province to last place in Missing Pieces: An alternative guide to Canadian post-secondary education. In the fourth year of the…
Passing the Test
The False Promises of Standardized Testing Download 863.53 KB 552 African-American high school students with low skills were expelled from school in Birmingham, Alabama, just before a big state test….
Missing Pieces IV
An Alternative Guide To Canadian Post-secondary Education Download 398.39 KB 80 pages Attachments Missing Pieces IV: Highlights…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2003
The devil in the details: The P3 experience in Nova Scotia schools When the previous Liberal government came into power in Nova Scotia, one of their mandates was to explore…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2003
Bringing light to the system: Toronto’s Dissident trustees take on the Province On August 27th, 2001 four women, trustees on the TDSB (Toronto District School Board) meet with the Editorial…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2002
In the eye of the storm: Ottawa pushes back against school board takeovers The spirit of local democracy is alive and well in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB), half…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2002
Seeking Social Justice through Media Literacy The media-literate student should “be able to make conscious critical assessments of the media, to maintain a critical distance on popular culture, and to…
Missing Pieces III
An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-secondary Education Download 189.03 KB 150 pages For the third year in a row, Missing Pieces: An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-secondary Education examines the…
Provinces pursue deregulation of tuition fees, further limit access to higher education: Report
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–Differing provincial priorities reinforce imbalance in access to quality, publicly accountable higher education, according to an annual report released by the Canadian Centre for Policy…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2002
Tales From the Crypt or Writing the Ontario Canadian and World Studies The nightmare began innocuously enough. Despite my best instincts and the negative opinion I, along with most teachers,…
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