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 2011
Instruments of Social Change The fall 2011 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves asks: “If schools are truly to be instruments of social change, how we can ensure that the change…
Rising university tuition fee burden squeezing Ontario families: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Ontario’s system of financing higher education is becoming less equitable and more regressive for families, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for…
Under Pressure
The impact of rising tuition fees on Ontario families Download 842.75 KB36 pages Over the past two decades, Ontario’s system of financing higher education has become more regressive, exploiting already…
For Ontario’s low- and middle-income families, paying for university involves priority roulette
This fall, as young people make preparations to enter university, some Ontarians may be feeling nostalgic. But for many Ontario parents, the excitement and pride that comes with watching their…
The New “Three R’s”
An award-winning college program for Inuit youth shows the benefits of a small learning environment and culturally-relevant curriculum Download 475.11 KB51 pages While not an official part of the Government…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2011
The Voice of Nunavut: Learning from the Eastern Arctic’s education challenges More than 10 years after its creation, although it has a government, policies and legislation in place which officially…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2011
Critical Mass: A primer for social change What do progressive people do when they realize that there are victories we can no longer take for granted, particularly when we see…
Cashing in or Selling Out?
OneStop Media Group and the Toronto District School Board Tonight, the Toronto District School Board is debating a motion over whether or not to extend a pilot project that currently…
Petrol’s Paid Pipers
Are the tar sands calling the tune in Alberta’s classrooms? Download 123.45 KB 13 pages “Petrol’s Paid Pipers,” from the Winter 2011 Our Schools / Our Selves, examines industry-funded lessons…
Feminism FOR REAL
Deconstructing the academic industrial complex of feminism When feminism becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say about it? Western notions of polite discourse are not…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2011
Bright Ideas: Students and educators challenge limits on education This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about how students and educators are confronting and resisting a narrow view of education,…
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