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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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Who’s the boss? “The Elf on the Shelf” and the normalization of surveillance
Are we using play to prepare children to accept increasingly intrusive surveillance?
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2014
Poverty, Polarization, and the Educational Achievement Gap How we care for and educate younger generations — from the early years right up to postsecondary— is…
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Climate Justice in BC
Lessons for Transformation Download 3.02 MB61 pages Are you looking for new ways to teach about climate change and social justice? Frustrated with models that…
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The Dirty War
The making of the myth of Black dangerousness Based on the accumulation of data, theoretical perspectives and personal narratives, The Dirty War paints a chilling…
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Provinces pursuing two-tier tuition fee policies: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—The average cost of tuition and compulsory fees for Canadian undergraduate students will rise by almost 13% over the next…
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Tier for Two
Managing the Optics of Provincial Tuition Fee Policies Download 472.83 KB32 pages This study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since…
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Infographic: An Education in Inflation 2014
The cost of tuition has gone up 197% since 1993, how much has everything else gone up? Share our infographic and find out more in…
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It‘s Complicated
An Interprovincial Comparison of Student Financial Aid Download 2.01 MB50 pages This study compares eligibility for student financial aid by examining the amount of funds…
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Navigating Canada’s complex terrain of student financial assistance
OTTAWA—Student aid systems in Canada are intricate, elaborate, and, in many cases, thoroughly unmanageable, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2014
Privatization of Schools: An International View “Math wars”, attacks on teacher unions, old-fashioned commercialism, standardized assessment, and surveillance: debates over education have always been heated.…
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Tuition Fees in Canada
This interactive tool allows you to compare how much tuition fees have increased by province and by degree since 1975.
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2014
Standardization Nation: In whose interest? The latest issue of Our Schools/Our Selves Standardization Nation looks at who and what is left out of a narrow,…
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