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Monitoring the privatization of public education – and resistance to it
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Ontario universities and public-private partnerships READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), while promoted as an innovative approach to the provision of public goods…
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Tuition fee increases further limit access to higher education
Report OTTAWA–Nova Scotia’s record in post-secondary education has dropped that province to last place in Missing Pieces: An alternative guide to Canadian post-secondary education. In…
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Passing the Test
The False Promises of Standardized Testing Download 863.53 KB 552 African-American high school students with low skills were expelled from school in Birmingham, Alabama, just…
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Missing Pieces IV
An Alternative Guide To Canadian Post-secondary Education Download 398.39 KB 80 pages Attachments Missing Pieces IV: Highlights
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2003
The devil in the details: The P3 experience in Nova Scotia schools When the previous Liberal government came into power in Nova Scotia, one of…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2003
Bringing light to the system: Toronto’s Dissident trustees take on the Province On August 27th, 2001 four women, trustees on the TDSB (Toronto District School…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2002
In the eye of the storm: Ottawa pushes back against school board takeovers The spirit of local democracy is alive and well in the Ottawa-Carleton…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2002
Seeking Social Justice through Media Literacy The media-literate student should “be able to make conscious critical assessments of the media, to maintain a critical distance…
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Provinces pursue deregulation of tuition fees, further limit access to higher education: Report
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–Differing provincial priorities reinforce imbalance in access to quality, publicly accountable higher education, according to an annual report released by…
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Missing Pieces III
An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-secondary Education Download 189.03 KB 150 pages For the third year in a row, Missing Pieces: An Alternative Guide to…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2002
Tales From the Crypt or Writing the Ontario Canadian and World Studies The nightmare began innocuously enough. Despite my best instincts and the negative opinion…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2002
September 11th and My ESL Class September 11th has marked us all. Many historians have used World War I to mark the beginning of the…
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