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Our Kids News Roundup: Nov. 1 – Nov. 5
Carly MagaOur Kids provides the education, camp, and parenting headlines you should know. A new study, like many other before it, finds that preschoolers are overdosing on screen time, but this time the results are even more disturbing. Another study in Spain finds that the country’s adolescents in private schools cope better to stress by using [...]
What we lose when we close a school
Christl Dabu
The story behind the massive school cuts and the planned shuttering of five schools in B.C. is more than just numbers. It’s not only about balancing budgets and financial efficiencies. It also involves ethical and moral decisions that can have a devastating impact on schools, essentially community centres linking students with people in their communities as well as health, recreation and arts services.
Vancouver’s Public Schools in Peril
Carly Maga
It is normally rainy in Vancouver this time of year, but now there are some particularly dark clouds brewing over the B.C. capital’s public schools. As we reported last September, British Columbia’s public school enrollment has been dropping – fast. Chair of the Vancouver School Board, Patti Bacchus, stated a decrease of 10,000 students in [...]
Facebook in the Classroom: Friend or Foe?
Guest Author
It becomes a pain for most parents with teen and tweens. Its addictive nature can distract and lure your child’s from both class time and study time—sometimes for hours on end. While you think you’re safe for the time being because you’re 8-year-old does not have an account yet, they will get one— eventually. So if you can’t fight them, why not join them? Many schools have decided to do just that. Aspengrove School in Nanaimo, B.C. teaches its students digital citizenship classes, and one school in Iowa has even invited Facebook into the curriculum.
Turning Around Our Public Schools
Paul W. Bennett
Public education reform, in Canada as in the U.S., is focused on improving student learning through systematic testing, data analysis, and system-wide initiatives. How do we zero in on individual school improvement and fundamentals such as curriculum quality and teaching? Time is running out to close the gaps between the educated and undereducated in our [...]
