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For better childhood developmental outcomes and better economics, and in the absence of other long-recommended child care policies, the child care subsidy system should be expanded, not cut.
While the purpose of education can’t be reduced to promoting economic growth, every child out of school represents both lost opportunities — and huge economic costs — for countries.
Abuses of disability diagnoses cheat students with disabilities who are now more likely to face skepticism about their diagnoses.
The Ford government’s cuts to library services are unwarranted and must be rescinded.
A historian reflects on the meaning of an aunt’s rural and war-time memoir, flagged for her attention when she was aged 13 by the then-81-year-old elder.
A shift to outcomes-based education will enable students to gain critical automation-resistant competencies to succeed and thrive in the future workforce alongside AI.
Interviews with Arab Albertan students reveal encounters with uneducated views of who they are in schools – a troubling situation particularly when hate crimes have been on the rise.
Two math professors set the record straight on Ontario math curriculum and achievement.
Citizens of Wisconsin were widely opposed to former governor Scott Walker’s attempts to make higher education serve the business community. Doug Ford and Ontario citizens should take note.
The plan to fully implement a quality early childhood program in all Nova Scotia public schools is crucial when more than one in five children live in poverty.
Across the English-speaking world, boys tend to drop out of foreign language study as soon as it is not mandatory.
Students hear about bullying, but how about kindness? An education researcher developed a model for encouraging intentional kindness is the classroom.
Many hate the fight against toxic masculinity because they don’t want to let go of male identity altogether. They don’t have to. They just have to let go of the bad parts.
A study that showed youth in five global cities lose hope as they grow into adulthood was turned into an elegant and beautiful documentary play with a plea to listen to the urgent calls of youth.
Many Canadians are puzzled by Québec’s law banning some civil servants from wearing religious symbols. A Québec sociologist explains the law is rooted in the province’s troubled history with religion.
MeToo has brought tremendous attention to the issue of sexual violence, and a Calgary-based male-only education and mentorship program is responding.
The supervised, structured and balanced use of Minecraft could allow students to fully benefit from the potential of this game to build skills and increase motivation.
A feminist philosopher and fitness writer challenges a mother who recently asked Notre Dame University to ban leggings on campus. Leggings allow women to move like superheroes, she says.
A ‘learn local’ strategy, along with increased residency positions and the return of a rotating internship could go a long way towards improving Canada’s system of medical training.
The stakes could be highest for students around the world as education systems decide how to respond to the changing shape of global standardized testing.
As ‘tiny historians of their age,’ children with testimonies of war provide teachers with both historical insight and critical instruction.
The Progressive Conservative government’s call to modernize education invokes long-standing rhetoric about progressive education in paradoxical ways.
An economist who researched and recommended free preschool child care in Ontario says there are multiple reasons why the province’s anticipated child care plan, based on tax credits, is flawed.
Are current forms of standardized literacy tests really measuring children’s capacity to read and interact with our rapidly-changing world?