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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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…
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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…
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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…
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Missing Pieces II
An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary Education Download 223.99 KB 268 pages
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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In the Corporate Interest
The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools Download 155.94 KB47 pages
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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…
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YNN and the Commercial Carpet-Bombing of the Classroom
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