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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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Protecting copyright laws for Canada’s kids
Fair dealing is an essential tool for teachers and students. We have to defend it.
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Summer/Fall 2022
Imbalance Sheet: What we lose when we privatize public education This summer issue of Our Schools/Our Selves focuses on how the privatization of our public schools has…
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Report lays out costed plan to help Ontario school students recover from pandemic disruptions
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—The Ontario government must boost annual education funding by $4.3 billion a year to help elementary and secondary school students…
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Catching Up Together
Download 1.16 MB52 pages Two years of the pandemic have disrupted the learning and development of Ontario’s elementary and secondary school students. In particular, households with…
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The impact of increasing Memorial University tuition to pay down Newfoundland and Labrador’s deficit Download 961.47 KB19 pages The government of Newfoundland and Labrador is…
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Tuition fee hikes at Memorial University will erode its competitive advantage: study
Province’s fiscal plan could make students pay for one-third of deficit by 2025 OTTAWA—Planned tuition fee hikes and funding cuts at Memorial University of Newfoundland…
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2022
The Crisis Continuum COVID-19 has been a devastating disruptor. It has laid bare the cumulative impact of subsequent waves of austerity—the true crisis of neglect…
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Decline and crisis in Ontario’s Northern universities and Arts education
System failures, declining enrolment and funding troubles Download 1.67 MB82 pages The enrolment and related funding conditions facing Northern universities and Faculties of Arts raise…
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Applied Learning
Deconstructing the Neoliberal Template Attachments CCPA Monitor July August 2021 OSOS.pdf
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2021
Build Back Kinder What have post-pandemic school reopening policies revealed about provincial priorities, and how have public education advocates, parents, students and communities responded? Can we…
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Summer/Fall 2020
Educating for Re-Emergence The summer/fall 2020 Our Schools/ Our Selves digs into the underlying issues of equity and access that have been revealed and exacerbated…
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2020
Out of Sorts The winter/spring 2020 issue focuses on the ways in which the neoliberal education agenda and austerity governments are reshaping education across the…
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