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EducationSources.ca
Website
2017
Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and imp...
High Stakes Testing: Why Are They Doing This To Our Kids?
Stratman, Dave
Article
2000
The tests are very destructive educationally. They test students on such a broad range of materials that teachers have to rush through the curriculum; they cannot allow real discussion or in-depth stu...
The Survival of Education: Against The Current vol. 134
Olson, Peter
Article
2008
I remember reading Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities as a student activist, when becoming a teacher was an abstract and somewhat romanticized idea floating around my head. I was moved by the politi...

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If you're a new Canadian, 'you go to university'
Variety of social factors cause first-and second-generation Canadians to attend university far in excess of non-immigrant children
Church, Elizabeth
2009
An investigation into the factors that contribute to the very high university attendance rate for second generation immigrants and first generation immigrants who came to Canada as children as reporte...