What does the research say?

We cover the topics and issues that interest you, and we collaborate with universities on special research projects. Our reports are written in plain language. Using our annual school surveys, we have collected data in schools since 1997. All our reports can be downloaded free of charge from this website. This listing also includes key reports from outside organizations.

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Date

20112010200920082007200420052006200320022001201219961972

• 2006

  Parent inclusion activities in Ontario: A snapshot of current activities

  People for Education, 2006. Parents provide a link between the education and childcare systems and the children who are the focus of the systems.

• 2006

  Ontario’s Northern schools, 2006

  People for Education, 2006. The current provincial funding formula fails to sufficiently recognize or fund the unique needs of northern schools, and changes to the formula in 2005-2006 have added.

• 2006

  Back-to-school update on school board finances

  People for Education, 2006. In this report, People for Education examines the impact of 2006/07 provincial education funding decisions – in particular the impact on Ontario’s northern school boards.

• 2005

  Balanced School Day report

  Waterloo Region DSB, 2005 This report by Waterloo’s Superintendent of Instruction on the implementation of balanced day in the district explains the rationale, and favourably assesses the impact of implementiSng.

• 2005

  Public education in Ontario’s cities, 2005

  People for Education, 2005. In a typical urban classroom, 13% of students have special needs, 12% need ESL support and as many as 36% come from low-income families; many students.

• 2005

  Ontario’s small schools, 2005

  People for Education, 2005. The combination of a poorly designed funding formula, national demographic trends, and chronic funding shortages have undermined the viability of thousands of small schools across the.

• 2005

  Health and Physical Education in Schools, 2005

  Despite the fact that physical education is a mandatory subjects in the elementary curriculum, there is presently no funding specifically designated in the education funding formula for specialist physical education.

• 2005

  Ontario School Closing and Opening List, 2005

  People for Education, 2005. The results of a survey of Ontario’s school boards, this list includes all schools under review by Accommodation Review Committees, the status of the reviews and the committees’ recommendations.

• 2004

  Indian Affairs and Northen Development: Education program and post-secondary student support

  Auditor General of Canada, 2004. The Auditor General noted several studies and initiatives since her report in 2000, but expressed serious concern about the educational program for children on reserves.

• Examination of the Balanced School Day schedule

  Hamilton Wentworth DSB, undated A two-year board evaluation of the Balanced School Day (three 100-minute periods with two 40-minute breaks) found more instructional time, a cleaner school, better concentration and.