Equity and equality
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2013
The trouble with course choices in Ontario high schools
New report reveals serious issues with high school course choices.
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2012
Poverty and inequality, 2012
This is a chapter from the Annual Report on Ontario’s Publicly Funded Schools 2012, and includes research and analysis regarding poverty and equality in schools. Every year, People for Education.
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2012
Equity and quality in education: Supporting disadvantaged students and schools
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 2012. Numerous international studies have shown that the most successful school systems are also the most equitable.
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2012
Investing in public programs matters: How state policies impact children’s lives: 2012 STATE Child and Youth Well-being Index
Foundation for Child Development, 2012. The Child Well-Being Index (CWI) is a national American, research-based composite measure, updated annually, that describes how young people in the United States have fared.
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2009
Toronto parent census: System overview
Toronto District School Board, 2009. A survey of 95,000 parents in 2008 showed high levels of satisfaction with Toronto schools, but confirms troubling achievement gaps based on race, family income, family.
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2009
Canadian 9-year-olds at school
Statistics Canada, 2009 This study looks at the education of 9-year-old Canadian schoolchildren, exploring academic achievement, family background and children’s educational environment: The transition between the primary grades 1 to.
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2008
Shaping a culture of respect in our schools
Ontario Safe Schools Action Team, 2008 This advisory group to the Ontario government reviewed issues of gender-based violence, homophobia, sexual harassment and inappropriate sexual behaviour in schools and made recommendations.
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2008
Growing unequal: A report on poverty
OECD, 2008 “After 20 years of continuous decline, both inequality and poverty rates in Canada have increased rapidly in the past 10 years. ” Schools are affected.
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2008
Review of the roots of youth violence
Ontario Inquiry, 2008 This review by Roy McMurtry and Alvin Curling found that youth violence has deep social roots, and recommended many changes, including a comprehensive youth policy with measurable.
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2007
Toronto District School Board 2006 Student Census: System overview
Toronto District School Board, 2006. This report contains the results of a survey of 105,440 students in the Toronto District School Board.
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2009
2006 student census: Correlations of school experience with student demographics and achievement
Toronto District School Board, 2009 Student census data show significant differences in the school experiences of young people. Groups with less positive experiences at school — feeling unsafe, worse relationships.
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2002
Investing in public education (Rozanski Report)
Ontario Education Equality Task Force, 2002. This comprehensive review of Ontario’s education funding formula made recommendations to improve the adequacy and structure of education funding.