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New Year’s Resolutions: Rethinking Work–Life Balance

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From virtual workplaces to the challenges of child care, 2020 eroded the border between labour and leisure

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Education

The Epidemic of Teacher Burnout

December 14, 2020February 11, 2021 - by Inori Roy

Provincial funding for schools has been decreasing for decades. Many educators aren’t sure they can go on

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Education

A Lonely Year on Campus

November 9, 2020November 10, 2020 - by Jadine Ngan

Tuning in to lectures from bedrooms and basements, students face an isolating postsecondary experience. But many still see hope

Education / November/December 2020

Black in the Ivory Tower

October 12, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Hadiya Roderique

Why it’s so hard for academics of colour to pursue their dream projects

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Education / First Person

Why Home-Schooling Was Right for Me

May 12, 2020 - by Elizabeth Howell

When school stifled my creativity, my parents turned to independent learning

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Education

Why Are We Still Paying for Catholic Schools?

January 6, 2020December 22, 2020 - by Michael Coren

Maintaining separate education systems is costly, unfair, and culturally divisive

Current Affairs / Education / June 2019 / Society

Are University Campuses Where Free Speech Goes to Die?

May 22, 2019March 27, 2020 - by John Semley

A new generation of students reignites the fight over intellectual freedom

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Cover Story / Education / October 2018

Who Gets to Be Gifted?

September 19, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Katrina Onstad

Kids in the gifted program are disproportionately white and affluent. How streaming became another form of segregation

Education

Canadian Education Is Steeped in Anti-Black Racism

November 29, 2017June 10, 2020 - by Robyn Maynard

For many Black youth, schools can be places of degradation, harm, and psychological violence

Education

Ontario College Educators Are on Strike for Their Students

November 2, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Maxine Simon

We don’t need more salary boosts for administrators. We need increased resources for instructors and their classrooms