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Ontario trades announcement ‘righting a generational wrong’ in schools: PCA
The new Education that Works for You vision released by Ontario Minister of Education Lisa Thompson recently includes increasing student and parent exposure to skilled trades and promoting the trades through education. “Ontario students have…
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As global restrictions on cellphones in schools increase, Toronto’s public school board is getting set to tackle the controversial issue. However so experts suggest a different approach. TDSB to debate cellphone bans: ‘What we have isn’t working’…
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In the last week of January, Grade 9 and 10 students at Ottawa’s public school board had the entire week off (unless asked to come in to finish incomplete work). Zwaagstra: Don’t scrap final exams….
Ontario government ‘absolutely committed’ to full-day learning, education minister says
TORONTO – Ontario’s education minister said Friday that a full-day learning program will stay in place for four- and five-year-olds in the province, a commitment made after the government faced backlash for comments that put the future…
Parents offer to pay Windsor-Essex school board to save IB program
The group developed a “co-payment” model that would see parents pay more than $3,000 per student to keep the program going, said Francine Salinitri, who is a professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. Salinitri…
Waitlist for autism assessments at province’s diagnostic hubs up by nearly 3,000 kids in three years
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Ontario trades announcement ‘righting a generational wrong’ in schools: PCA
The new Education that Works for You vision released by Ontario Minister of Education Lisa Thompson recently includes increasing student and parent exposure to skilled trades and promoting the trades through education. “Ontario students have…
TDSB to debate cellphone bans in classrooms: ‘What we have isn’t working’
As global restrictions on cellphones in schools increase, Toronto’s public school board is getting set to tackle the controversial issue. However so experts suggest a different approach. TDSB to debate cellphone bans: ‘What we have isn’t working’…
Zwaagstra: Don’t scrap final exams. Some stress is good for students
In the last week of January, Grade 9 and 10 students at Ottawa’s public school board had the entire week off (unless asked to come in to finish incomplete work). Zwaagstra: Don’t scrap final exams….
Ontario government ‘absolutely committed’ to full-day learning, education minister says
TORONTO – Ontario’s education minister said Friday that a full-day learning program will stay in place for four- and five-year-olds in the province, a commitment made after the government faced backlash for comments that put the future…
Parents offer to pay Windsor-Essex school board to save IB program
The group developed a “co-payment” model that would see parents pay more than $3,000 per student to keep the program going, said Francine Salinitri, who is a professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. Salinitri…
Waitlist for autism assessments at province’s diagnostic hubs up by nearly 3,000 kids in three years
More than 6,000 children were waiting for autism assessments at the five hubs by the end of the last fiscal year, data obtained by The Trillium through a freedom-of-information request shows Waitlist for autism assessments…