The Biased Ways We Praise “Smart Kids”
When we prioritize certain interests as being “better” or “smarter,” we’re failing children whose talents lie in other areas
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Learning Sex Ed Through Art
How Nunavut’s Timiga, Ikumajuq became the most exceptional sex-ed program in Canada
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Why Everyone Is Wrong about the Censorship Fight at Universities
The silencing of part-time instructors is the real free speech crisis
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I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant
The one thing that criminals and philosophers share is a sense of being an outsider
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Canadian Education is Steeped in Anti-Black Racism
For many Black youth, schools can be places of degradation, harm, and psychological violence
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Ontario College Educators Are on Strike for Their Students
We don’t need more salary boosts for administrators. We need increased resources for instructors and their classrooms
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What Western Education Didn’t Teach Me
How a group of Nishnaabeg elders helped me to let go of what I’d learned and embrace Indigenous thinking
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How Schools Can Stop Killing Creativity
With the world in crisis, it’s more urgent than ever for students to develop original thinking
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With Trump, a New Case for Why the Humanities Still Matter
On studying the nature of truth in the age of alternative facts
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