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Blog
Jason Kunin
| COVID-19 has undermined trust in the public school system, created mass incentive for private school and homeschooling options, and achieved a level of public acceptance for e-learning. |
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Blog
Maya Bhullar
| Jason Schilling assumed the presidency of the Alberta Teachers' Association on July 1, 2019. Read what he had to tell us about the UCP government's effort to undermine public schools. |
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Blog
Lizanne Foster
| The NDP's plan does not have public school students in mind. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| We don't know what the government of Alberta has in mind with this change, only that it doesn't seem to be inclined to volunteer the information. |
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Columnists
Rick Salutin
| Doug Ford has decreed that beginning in fall 2020, Ontario high school students will need to take four online courses to graduate. |
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Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| If the Los Angeles teachers are any indication of what's to come, the privatizers and their champion in Washington, D.C. may have met their match. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| No one should expect the questions about the funding of Catholic education in Saskatchewan to be resolved by June 30, or when classes resume in September. |
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Columnists
Rick Salutin
| The sex ed curriculum will be an overt omen, but there's a bigger picture. Ford's staff has a reputation for undermining the public education system with tax breaks and standardized tests. |
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Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| In West Virginia, striking public school teachers and staff celebrated a victory last week, inspiring educators outside their state to take action for better pay and working conditions. |
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Columnists
Rick Salutin
| The great feat of public schools is being open to everyone; they offer unique opportunities to learn from those unlike us. That gets lost if school populations are desegregated by program. |
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Blog
Benjamin Doxtdator
| Tom Bennett, who is the keynote at this week's Leadership Conference for educators, has connections to very troubling claims about links between student performance, race, and the heritability of IQ. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| All right-wing parties have to defend their support for excessive funding for ritzy private schools is the risible claim such schools offer "choice," and, you know, choice is good. |
