We could be doing worse, but research does show that Canada has a literacy problem.
So, if that’s the case, why would the Conservatives cut $17.7 million CDN from adult and family literacy programs? This is old news, but it made no sense then, and it still doesn’t. Adult literacy has a very direct and measure [...]
Category Archives: education
Reason 3 not to vote for the Conservatives: who cuts literacy funding?
September 12, 2008 – 4:00 am
Compelling graphs from the WHO Report on Social Determinants of Health
August 29, 2008 – 6:50 am
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Commission on the Social Determinants of Health has just released its final report which, though I have not read it in detail (it’s pretty long), seems to have some powerfully-worded recommendations and calls-to-action with regard to improving health outcomes across the globe. I appreciate how they don’t shy away from [...]
Canadian students’ environmental knowledge and attitudes
June 9, 2008 – 2:49 pm
Those interested in the environment may have missed some relevant findings from the 2006 OECD’s PISA Science assessment results. The education findings are well-known (Canadian youth score highly both on raw achievement and on equity measures), but less well-known is the fact that the Science assessment also gauged youths’ awareness of and attitudes towards environmental [...]
What are the relationships between learning and engagement at school?
June 6, 2008 – 1:44 pm
I think all we can really say for now is that “we think there’s something there, but we’re not sure what”.
A cursory glance at the recent PISA figures on student achievement in science seem to show no macro-level relationship between achievement on the one hand, and sense of belonging and participation on the other. For [...]