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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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2015
How Does Your Garden Grow? Sustainability, collaboration, and place-based learning This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is an opportunity to explore much of what has resulted from the fallout of…well, let’s…
An Agenda for Social Change: 2016 Calendar
The CCPA is pleased to introduce our 2016 Calendar: An Agenda for Social Change. This is about more than keeping you organized – each month identifies and describes key dates…
Provincial tuition fee policies more about managing public opinion than accessibility: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—On average, tuition and compulsory fees for Canadian undergraduate students have tripled between 1993-94 and 2015-16 and will continue to rise over the next four…
What’s the Difference?
Taking Stock of Provincial Tuition Fee Policies Download 740.02 KB32 pages This study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1993, projects fees for each province…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2015
Moving Beyond Baby Steps: Building a child care plan for today’s families This issue of Our Schools / Our Selves takes stock of where we are and where we need…
Special education policies across Canada need update, renewal: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT OTTAWA—The majority of special education policies in place across Canada are more than 10 years old and…
Invalidité et inclusion dans l’éducation canadienne
politique, procédure et pratique Download 1.45 MB72 pages Le présent rapport donne un portrait général des politiques en matière d’enseignement spécial dans l’ensemble du Canada. Le rapport trouve qu’un bon…
Disability and Inclusion in Canadian Education
Policy, Procedure, and Practice Download 1.34 MB68 pages This report provides a general picture of special education policies across Canada, and finds that the majority are more than 10 years…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2015
Constellations of Black Radical Imagining: Black Arts and Popular Education This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is a collective response to the demonstrable lack of educational resources that focus on and…
A Penny For Your Thoughts
How corporatization devalues teaching, research, and public service in Canada’s universities Simmering conflicts in higher education have reached the boiling point across Canada and around the globe. Teach-ins, occupations, strikes,…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2015
Challenging Society’s Perceptions About Poverty The harshness of the neoliberal agenda and the deep entrenchment of poverty and inequality was underscored earlier this year when several homeless people died on Toronto’s…
Flawed funding formula behind Toronto school board woes: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – The political drama that’s been unfolding at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) over school closures and tight funding is totally…
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