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Who’s Calling the Shots? Download 1.16 MB42 pages Attachments Executive Summary — Commercialism in Canadian Schools: Who’s Calling the Shots?

qui mène la barque? Download 1.76 MB48 pages Attachments Résumé — La Commercialisation des écoles canadiennes : qui mène la barque

CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT Toronto—La vaste gamme d’activités de financement privé qui ont cours dans les écoles publiques du Canada pourrait menacer l’éducation…

Education’s Iron Cage and Its Dismantling In the New Global Order Over the last three decades, global capitalism has carried out a full-scale assault on…

Riding the Tiger of Educational Accountability in Nova Scotia Attachments Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2006 – Table of Contents

Schooling for Democracy: One Size Does Not Fit All It’s all over the papers – young people aren’t voting. It’s the fault of the media…

The Many Faces of Privatization Attachments Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2005 — Table of Contents

Second Edition Download 543.81 KB 206 pages Today’s youth live, communicate and act in a wired world of corporate logos, symbols and branding. “McWorld” is…

An alternative Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary Education Download 879.51 KB 116 pages Missing Pieces, an annual report by Denise Doherty-Delorme and Erika Shaker, ranks provinces…

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–Manitoba takes the lead and Nova Scotia remains in last place in Missing Pieces: An alternative guide to Canadian post-secondary…

The False Promises of Standardized Testing Download 863.53 KB316 pages

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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