With a wide circle of research associates representing all aspects of the education sector, accessible research, case studies and thoughtful commentary and analysis, the CCPA 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.
Education Project
- Over 20 years ago, the book Stacking the Deck: The Streaming of Working Class Kids in Ontario Schools asked,“Will we waste another generation?” The book was written in the wake of a government...February 13, 2014 | National OfficeThe roles and responsibilities of unions have come under renewed scrutiny. Provincial and federal government hostility towards organized resistance to current policies is intensifying through heated...November 27, 2013 | National OfficeCCPA-MB's new film, Right of Passage by Carole O'Brien, is about the experiences of at-risk students attending Gorden Bell High School's alternative education program in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Learn...November 26, 2013 | Manitoba Office
- February 28, 2014 | National Office
Sinking, Swimming, or Treading Water?
September 11, 2013 | National OfficeNavigating the changing terrain of university finance
- February 12, 2014 | National Office
Restacking the Deck: Streaming by class, race and gender in Ontario schools
November 27, 2013 | National OfficeOn the Front Lines: Teachers, Unions, and Social Progress
July 16, 2013 | National OfficeCreative License: Education, Social Justice and the Arts
Our Schools/Our Selves is our quarterly journal on education written by and for students, teachers, and parents. It is a lively forum for debates and discussion on a number of topics such as Aboriginal education, anti-racism classroom programs, sex education, commercialism, child care, environmental education, and much more. Learn more.
Our Schools / Our Selves
This special issue of OS/OS documents how streaming based on class, race, gender and imputed special needs still occurs extensively in our schools, and speaks about the need for a destreamed schooling reform because many students are not being served well by the present system.
Featured Publication
How affordable is a university education in your province? This study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and examines the impact on affordability for median- and low-income families using a Cost of Learning Index.