Sex Education in the Early Grades – What’s the Real Purpose of Explicit Sex-Ed?

Paul W. Bennett
Teaching to young children

[Thanks to Paul W. Bennett for sharing this article with us.  If you have any comments you can leave them hear at the bottom of this article or directly on Paul’s site where this article first appeared.) Ontario’s aborted sex education curriculum reform created quite a public uproar and re-ignited an ongoing debate across Canada.  [...]

The Week on Twitter: 2010-04-25

Travis Allison

April 23rd – Buy your ticket today and help more kids experience Summer Camp!… http://bit.ly/aU2WvC # RT @montessoristuff: A new approach to protecting kids on Social networks http://bit.ly/a8Ju5v #kids # Thank you to all of those who have helped already: For every 1,000 fans we will send one kid to camp. Spread the word! http://bit.ly/b1BSoP [...]

Kids can make a difference

Kristine Quan
Toronto's CN Tower with school bus

Last weekend was pretty exhausting. I was following my son’s example by participating in doing some good deeds. We volunteered for an “out of the cold” dinner program and did the CN Tower Climb for WWF. As tiring as it all was, it was impressive, and satisfying. My oldest son and I started volunteering for [...]

The globalization of education

Shaundra Selvaggi
Munk Centre for International Studies

Last week the University of Toronto unveiled plans to open a new School of Global Affairs in the centre of Canada’s largest and most diverse city.  The school will function as part of the established Munk Centre for International Studies.   The university already has some pretty lofty goals for the building as well as [...]

Unplug: Get the Leading Edge in Teen Programming

admin

How many times a day do you deal with technology? As I sit and contemplate this myself, I realize that, in this increasingly technological world, I am immersed in a lifestyle that leaves me reaching for my cell phone to send texts just as much as I make calls and posting tweets between emails and [...]

What’s On: Week of April 19-25, 2010

Shaundra Selvaggi

Welcome to What’s On, The Our Kids blog’s weekly roundup of interesting and exciting events on tap. To help make sure we know about all the best events be sure to leave a comment below or send an email to travis[at]ourkids[dot]net. Now on with the week ahead! Tuesday April 20 Open House | TOWN CENTRE [...]

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