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While government policy and media critique has focussed on higher education and international students in Canada, secondary schools have attracted far less attention. (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

The private school market serving international secondary students in Ontario has grown

A lack of regulation raises concern about educational quality as well as children’s safety.
To prevent compulsive patterns from developing, parents and educators must come together to build healthy phone-use habits both in school and at home. (Getty Images/UInsplash+)

School phone bans are working in Toronto elementary schools — and failing in high schools

Results of a teacher survey suggest high schools would be better off adopting bell-to-bell restrictions with consistent phone storage protocols.
Work-integrated learning has become an increasingly prominent strategy for improving workforce readiness and supporting economic development. (Yunus Tug/Unsplash+)

Work‑integrated learning: 3 insights for effective policy from Alberta

Announcing ambitious education policy goals is easier than ensuring institutions, employers and educators have the resources necessary to achieve them.
Ending racism in schools requires a deep understanding of anti-Black racism. (Wayne Lee Sing/Unsplash)

How to curb anti‑Black racism in Canadian schools

Although school boards have yet to find a systemic way to combat anti-Black racism, educators are in a unique position to correct these injustices.
Students of School Section #13 with teacher, Verlyn Ladd, who taught at the school from 1939 to 1958. Class of 1951, Buxton, Raleigh Township, Ontario. (Buxton National Historic Site & Museum)

Black History: How racism in Ontario schools today is connected to a history of segregation

An 1850 act permitted the creation of separate schools for Protestants, Catholics and for any five Black families. Some white people used the act to force Black students into separate institutions.
Protesters join a demonstration organized by teachers’ unions outside the Ontario Legislature, in Toronto, as four unions hold a province-wide education strike on Feb. 21, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Canada’s high schools are underfunded and turning to international tuition to help

After years of neoliberal policies eroding the tax base to pay for high schools, mandatory online learning curriculum from classrooms could be the next international money-maker.
The big spending provinces in Canada did not necessarily get the best Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) standardized test results. (Shutterstock)

Canadian schools spend more as enrolment and test scores fall

Research shows that the provinces vary widely in their ability to produce academic results for money they spend, and PEI shows the most efficient results.

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