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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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Education

Reports

But It’s Only A Tool
The Politics of Technology and Education Reform This collection pushes the reader to think beyond the mantra “it’s only a tool,” commonly used to neutralize…
October 1, 2001
Children & Youth

Education

Our Schools / Our Selves

Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2001
Ontario Students as a Means to the Government’s Ends In high-risk sites like Ontario, traditional forms of liberal education are being replaced by policies mandating…
July 1, 2001
Education

Our Schools / Our Selves

Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2001
Class size in Alberta–an ongoing debate! The debate over class size in Alberta’s schools has sharpened significantly in the last few months. It has set…
April 1, 2001
Education

Reports

Missing Pieces II
An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary Education Download 223.99 KB 268 pages
January 10, 2001
News Release

Provincial policies creating disparities in access to higher education: Report
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Ottawa—A patchwork quilt of provincial policies is creating massive imbalances in educational opportunity across Canada, according to an annual report…
January 10, 2001
News Release

Les politiques provinciales créent des disparités d’accès aux études supérieures
CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. Ottawa – Selon un rapport annuel publié aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA), la mosaïque des…
January 10, 2001
Education

Our Schools / Our Selves

Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2001
Public Education and Moral Monsters: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky It is startling to learn that amidst the volumes of literature which addresses current trends…
January 1, 2001
Media Analysis

Reports

E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
Communications in the Public Interest Download 1.65 MB228 pages From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, the essays contained in…
January 1, 2001
Education

Our Schools / Our Selves

Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2000
What Should We Spend on Education? Highlights from the Year 2000 Alternative Federal Budget and the Ontario Alternative Budget The Alternative Budgets The Alternative Federal…
September 1, 2000
Corporations & Corporate Power

Education

Reports

In the Corporate Interest
The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools Download 155.94 KB47 pages
July 10, 2000
Corporations & Corporate Power

Education

News & Commentary

News Release

In the corporate interest
The YNN experience in Canadian schools CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The presence of the Youth News Network (YNN) has disrupted the school…
July 10, 2000
Corporations & Corporate Power

Education

Reports

YNN and the Commercial Carpet-Bombing of the Classroom
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October 1, 1999

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Monitoring the privatization of public education – and resistance to it

But It’s Only A Tool

Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2001

Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2001

Missing Pieces II

Provincial policies creating disparities in access to higher education: Report

Les politiques provinciales créent des disparités d’accès aux études supérieures

Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2001

E-Commerce vs. E-Commons

Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2000

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In the corporate interest

YNN and the Commercial Carpet-Bombing of the Classroom

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