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.
Check out what’s new on our blog, and in our popular magazine Our Schools / Our Selves.
- One: most recent OS/OS issue
- Two: most recent blog post
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Catching Up Together
Download 1.16 MB52 pages Two years of the pandemic have disrupted the learning and development of Ontario’s elementary and secondary school students. In particular, households with…
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Report lays out costed plan to help Ontario school students recover from pandemic disruptions
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—The Ontario government must boost annual education funding by $4.3 billion a year to help elementary and secondary school students…
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Tuition fee hikes at Memorial University will erode its competitive advantage: study
Province’s fiscal plan could make students pay for one-third of deficit by 2025 OTTAWA—Planned tuition fee hikes and funding cuts at Memorial University of Newfoundland…
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Passing the Buck
The impact of increasing Memorial University tuition to pay down Newfoundland and Labrador’s deficit Download 961.47 KB19 pages The government of Newfoundland and Labrador is…
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2022
The Crisis Continuum COVID-19 has been a devastating disruptor. It has laid bare the cumulative impact of subsequent waves of austerity—the true crisis of neglect…
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Decline and crisis in Ontario’s Northern universities and Arts education
System failures, declining enrolment and funding troubles Download 1.67 MB82 pages The enrolment and related funding conditions facing Northern universities and Faculties of Arts raise…
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Applied Learning
Deconstructing the Neoliberal Template Attachments CCPA Monitor July August 2021 OSOS.pdf
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2021
Build Back Kinder What have post-pandemic school reopening policies revealed about provincial priorities, and how have public education advocates, parents, students and communities responded? Can we…
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Summer/Fall 2020
Educating for Re-Emergence The summer/fall 2020 Our Schools/ Our Selves digs into the underlying issues of equity and access that have been revealed and exacerbated…
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2020
Out of Sorts The winter/spring 2020 issue focuses on the ways in which the neoliberal education agenda and austerity governments are reshaping education across the…
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Getting back on course
The looming Ontario election means that, once again, education will be a key topic of debate. This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves focuses on a…
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter 2018
Going Somewhere? A New Direction for Public Education in Ontario The looming Ontario election means that, once again, education will be a key topic of…
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