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Six tips for college and university freshmen
NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2009/ Troy Media/ -- The transition from high school to college and university seems easy and most recent high school graduates don't give it any thought…
Alberta cautioned about axing provincial achievement tests
WINNIPEG, MB, Nov. 10, 2009/ -- When running a deficit, governments often use the need for expenditure reductions as an opportunity to cut programs they consider less important. Unsurprisingly, various…
Dave Hancock’s moment of truth
EDMONTON, AB, Nov. 2, 2009/ Troy Media/ -- Alberta has a progressive Minister of Education in Dave Hancock. He has been using 2009 as a year of dialogue and engagement.…
Governments to students: Don’t worry about the real world
WINNIPEG, MB, Oct. 26, 2009/ -- Try and imagine what might happen to a newspaper reporter who consistently fails to hand in stories before press time. Or a lawyer who…
Getting past the education establishment’s reading wars
WINNIPEG, MB, Oct. 21, 2009/ -- A recent report from Statistics Canada found that reading proficiency is a strong predictor of how likely students are to complete high school and…
Teachers promoting environmental biases in classrooms
VANCOUVER, BC, October 15, 2009/ -- My grandson is five years old. After his second week in school, he asked his father what he was doing about global warming.…
Failing grade for Canada’s university policy
EDMONTON, AB, Oct. 8, 2009/ -- The Times Higher Education newspaper published its annual ranking of the world's top two hundred universities this last week.…
How Canada’s schools promote failure in university – and life
WINNIPEG, MB, Sept. 29, 2009/ -- With orientation sessions over and several weeks of classes under their belts, first-year university students realize they face a challenging academic year. Unfortunately, several…
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