Education
Written for professionals and citizens alike, this book provides a primer on a little-known agreement within the World Trade Organization, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). It highlights the threats the treaty already poses and, using highly plausible scenarios, describes how it could undermine public education in the future. Trade policy specialists Matt Sanger and Jim Grieshaber-Otto dissect federal government efforts to reassure and mislead Canadians about the threats GATS poses to public education.
Canadians are guaranteed certain fundamental freedoms: freedom of conscience and religion; freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; freedom of peaceful assembly; and freedom of association (Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms). We are also given the right to vote for candidates in municipal, provincial and national elections, the winners of which will then represent their constituents in our governmental institutions.
Ottawa---A patchwork quilt of provincial policies is creating massive imbalances in educational opportunity across Canada, according to an annual report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Today's youth live, communicate and act in a wired world of corporate logos,symbols and branding. "McWorld" is the symbolic term often used to capture the new realities of corporate-driven globalization which engulf young people today.The dynamics of McWorld provide us with a common symbol and language for both understanding and confronting the major issues of corporate globalization today.
This collection pushes the reader to think beyond the mantra "it's only a tool," commonly used to neutralize discussions about new technologies in the classroom. The authors explore the threats and promises such powerful technologies bring with them to the institution of public education. The context of market-driven reform initiatives is considered as are the needs of a new techno-savvy generation of students. Both supporters and skeptics will find arguments to support their views.
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 Alternatives. In its third year, Missing Pieces III: An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-secondary Education ranks provinces according to their overall commitment to higher education. The ranking is the product of sub-rankings of provincial performance in four categories: equity, accessibility, quality and public accountability. Each category has from five to seven component indicators.