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Education / Health / Society

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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