Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada can’t embrace the knowledge-based economy of the 21st century unless our education system embraces new teaching technologies
Author: Maddie Di Muccio
Troy Media columnist Maddie Di Muccio is a former town councillor in Newmarket, Ont., and former columnist with the Toronto Sun. Often appearing on talk radio and TV, she focuses on educational and political reform.
The importance of unstructured recess
Reading Time: 3 minutes By organizing activities at recess, or replacing recess with more classroom studies, educators are doing a horrible disservice to children
2016 a year of dramatic change in education
Reading Time: 3 minutes DI MUCCIO: The implications of some of the biggest stories in public education in 2016
Parents are paramount in a child’s education
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian teachers and other do-gooders have attempted but failed to eradicate the worst social ills through classroom instruction
Civics courses are something we can’t LIV without
Reading Time: 3 minutes Imagine how things would change if we educated our next generation to ignore the sideshow antics, the social media snapshots, and the meaningless jargon
Testing the limits of an education system’s commitment
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the face of a cyber attack on an Ontario literacy test, a teachers’ union casts doubt on the entire notion of standardized testing
Nationwide standard on high school diploma would raise the bar
Reading Time: 3 minutes A lack of national educational standards for literacy, mathematics and sciences is putting Canada’s economic prosperity in peril
Wynne’s education strategy all about her political ambitions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is intent on bringing teachers into the fold with a new contract as she builds re-election allies
Canada needs to put its education spending to better use
Reading Time: 3 minutes A disproportionate amount of money is spent on education, but our results are mixed and we are falling behind many other countries
Make it easier for schools to compete for students
Reading Time: 4 minutes We need to allow boards to recruit and hire the best teachers regardless of seniority and the free movement of students regardless of postal code