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It’s easy for governments to make big policy announcements, and more difficult to change what happens in thousands of classrooms and schools. (Shutterstock)

For successful school phone bans, school administrators and parents need to support teachers

Sachin Maharaj, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

It simply cannot be left up to individual teachers to enforce cellphone restrictions in schools without significant support from school administrators and work to bring parents on board.
A person wears a Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation button during a province-wide, one-day strike in Saskatoon, Sask., on Jan. 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu

Solving teacher shortages depends on coming together around shared aspirations for children

Kathryn Hibbert, Western University

Decisions to fill teacher vacancies with uncertified adults compromises children’s education and reveals a demeaning notion that teachers — in a female-dominated profession — are merely babysitters.
When University of Manitoba Faculty Association went on strike and hit the picket lines in 2016, the association raised issues about having a greater say over ever-increasing workloads, appropriate use of metrics in evaluation and job security. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

University and school strikes across Canada are about workers’ rights — and protecting education as a public good

Nancy Marie Ross, Dalhousie University; ivan beck, Dalhousie University, and Raluca Bejan, Dalhousie University

Education strikes by university and public school workers are political fights about diminished respect for education as a public good and workers’ rights in an economy that perpetuates inequality.
Locating early learning programs in schools provides stable programming infrastructure and allows for potential collaborations between early childhood educators and teachers. (Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages)

What to look for in a high‑quality ‘pre‑primary’ or junior kindergarten program

Christine McLean, Mount Saint Vincent University and Jessie-Lee McIsaac, Mount Saint Vincent University

People, policies, practice and place all matter in publicly funded, school-based children’s early learning programs.
Nova Scotia is rolling out a universal full-day, no-fee pre-primary program, similar to Ontario’s and the Northwest Territories’ play-based junior kindergarten. (Shutterstock)

Nova Scotia’s new pre‑primary class gives kids a head start through play‑based learning

Jessie-Lee McIsaac, Mount Saint Vincent University and Joan Turner, Mount Saint Vincent University

The plan to fully implement a quality early childhood program in all Nova Scotia public schools is crucial when more than one in five children live in poverty.
Many provinces are focused on constraining the growth of teaching and staffing costs in education. Here, Ontario Premier Doug Ford with United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney, in Calgary, Oct. 5, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Alberta election shows the threat to public education in Canada

Stephen Murgatroyd, University of Alberta

In calls for dramatic action to overhaul education in the name of improvement and efficiencies, we see the impact of global trends in privatization.

Related Topics

  1. Alberta education
  2. Back to school
  3. Children
  4. Classrooms
  5. Early childhood education
  6. Ontario education
  7. Play-based learning
  8. Primary school
  9. University strikes

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