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We aim to produce major policy research studies, research papers and articles, and eventually books on issues affecting Canadian education. On our website and various edublogs, we will make the results of the latest educational writing and research available to clients and the public.
Through sound research and critical thinking, we seek to assess the competing claims of the key stakeholders – administrators, teachers, and parents-- as well as to find solutions to some of our thorniest, most perplexing problems. Armed with the latest, best research, we will advocate for needed policy changes and seek to influence and enlist the support of today’s educational leaders and policy-makers.
Our biggest challenge in schools lies in “building a community of learners. Schools have the capacity to renew themselves, if the conditions are right.” Roland Barth, Improving Schools from Within (1991)
“Overwhelmed teachers yearn to escape the edu-babble of conflicting and unworkable policy directives.” Andy Hargreaves, International Handbook of Educational Change (1998)
What's New
SELLING NOVA
SCOTIA MYTHS
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Dr. Paul W. Bennett
reviewed Ian McKay
and Robin Bates'
In the Province of
History (The
Sunday Herald,
July 25, 2010)
THE KEN FELLS FIASCO - Schoolhouse Director
comments on the crisis
in The Globe and Mail
(July 22, 2010)
COMMENTARIES:
The Public Voice in Education
- Education posted
on Educhatter's Blog
(July 25, 2010)
Teens Can't Escape Torment, The
Chronicle Herald
(June 3, 2010)
Turning Around Our Schools, Progress Magazine (May 2010)
SCHOOL'S OUT, AGAIN! - Director Paul Bennett released
AIMS research report (April 13) on 'Why "Throw-away" School Days Hurt Students' (www.aims.ca)
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Dr. Desmond Morton, Distinguished Professor of History, McGill University, Montreal.
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