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Make surplus schools resource centres, advocate says

November 9, 2009

An education advocacy group says some of the 172 Ontario schools it says are threatened with closure should be turned into child and family resource centres.

Gotta dance! (and sing! and act!)

Trish Crawford November 9, 2009

Mirabella Sundar Singh is what's known in show business as a triple threat – she can dance, sing and act.

Spawn of Sesame Street

Kristin Rushowy November 9, 2009

The people, the puppets. The music, the singing. From Day 1, "Sesame Street" was mesmerizing. For kids and their parents, it was... Comment Count(0)

Brazilian's mini-dress too hot for class

November 9, 2009

A Brazilian university student expelled for wearing a short, pink dress to class was accused of immorality by the college in newspaper ads on Sunday.

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Michael Ignatieff makes daycare a key campaign plank

Susan Delacourt October 21, 2009

The federal Liberals are promising to put a national child-care program at the forefront of the next election campaign and any future government, with leader Michael...

Kristin Rushowy September 28, 2009

Jim Grieve, director of the Peel public school board since 2002, is leaving to head up the provincial government's early learning initiative.

Andrea Gordon July 13, 2009

Kevin Lee has been so inundated with pleas from parents seeking childcare during the city strike that he felt duty-bound to respond. Comment Count(2)

Schools

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It's not brain surgery

Alanna Mitchell November 7, 2009

Combining the fields of neuroscience and education holds out great hope to improve the way we teach our children. So here's my manifesto to get the ball rolling.

Lesley Ciarula Taylor November 6, 2009

Teacher Deb St. Amant would lose her voice four or five times a year, and it's taken physical therapy and a wireless amplifier to rescue her career.

Alanna Mitchell November 5, 2009

The mysterious case of the Grade 8 art student who destroyed his own masterpiece may hold a key to using brain science to change education.

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Brazilian's mini-dress too hot for class

November 9, 2009

A Brazilian university student expelled for wearing a short, pink dress to class was accused of immorality by the college in newspaper ads on Sunday.

Jennifer Yang November 5, 2009

According to Maclean's magazine's latest ranking of Canadian universities, Oshawa's University of Ontario Institute of Technology is beating out the likes... Comment Count(16)

Susan Pigg October 31, 2009

My husband and I are still punch drunk from all the prep work it took last month to get our 18-year-old son ready for his first year – and Frosh Week – at Queen's... Comment Count(3)

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