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Education

Education / November/December 2020

Black in the Ivory Tower

October 12, 2020January 30, 2022 - by Hadiya Roderique

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

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Education

Why Home-Schooling Was Right for Me

May 12, 2020November 8, 2021 - 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, 2020March 14, 2022 - 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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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, 2017January 30, 2022 - 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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Education

How Schools Can Stop Killing Creativity

August 31, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Kelly Gallagher-Mackay

With the world in crisis, it’s more urgent than ever for students to develop original thinking

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Education

Demanding Kinder Classrooms Doesn’t Make You a Snowflake

August 23, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Daniel Heath Justice

Students don’t need to get better at dealing with the real world—professors do

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Education

The Unbearable Whiteness of CanLit

July 26, 2017April 30, 2021 - by Darcy Ballantyne

Black writers are not marginal to our literature; they are our literature. So why aren’t they being taught?

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