- Abolish High School
Easy Chair
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Solnit says that we need to recognize that high school doesn't work for most young people, and suggests abolishing it.
- Against School
How public education cripples our kids, and why
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
An essay by a retired teacher on the infantilization of children by the public school system. This intellectual history of US public school curiculum reveals that it was conceived as a democratic means to a reflexively obedient work force.
- The Alberta Teachers' Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War on America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques. Hedges argues that the movement resembles the young fascist movements in Italiy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. He challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
- Back-to-the-Basics with Back-to-School Organization
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
August is the time to get ready for back to school by preparing ourselves with the proper supplies and organizational techniques.
- Besuch im Karzer
Resource Type: Book
- Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
- A Brief Look at Public Alternative Schools in Ontario
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Brock University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Council on Learning
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Censorship Goes To School
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
- Challenged Books List
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- Charter Schools Increase Fraud, Corruption, Chaos, and Anarchy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Charter schools, which barely make up seven percent of U.S. schools, are often accused of taking all the antisocial, antipublic, and antipeople practices of medieval autocrats and opportunuties to new extremes. Shawgi Tell looks into the issue of privatization of education that will intensify in the months ahead.
- Children of the Broken Treaty
Canada's Lost Promise and One Girls's Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Angus provides chilling insight into how Canada denies First Nations children their basic human rights.
- Choices
A Family Global Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Choices is aimed particularly at parents who want to instil social awareness in their children, and who are looking for ideas, activities, and ways of initiating discussion.
- Class Bias in Toronto Schools
Downtown Kids Aren't Dumb: They Need A Better Program
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
A brief by the Park School community council addressing the streaming of poor and working class children into the bottom levels of the school system. These children, the brief says, have badly developed basic skills, particularly in reading and writing. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
- Class Warfare
The Assault on Canada's School
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
- Community Control of the Schools
In New York and Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
George Martell believes that community control of schools is a complicated and difficult thing to achieve. He makes suggestions for organization of different structures using New York City schools as an example.
- Community is my family's support system
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
The teacher, the mother, my community - they are reminders of a world that still struggles to maintain decent values and a basic kindness between human beings.
- Commuto Inc.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Compulsory Education and the Amish
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
Discusses the struggles of the Amish for their own schools.
- Compulsory Mis-education and The Community of Scholars
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
Two books combined in a single volume. A far-ranging critique of the state of American eduation.
- Crescent School
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Criminalizing Truancy
Should Kids be Jailed for Skipping School?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
American jurisdictions are increasingly turning to the criminal justice system to deal with truancy. Students and parents are being fined, and in some cases jailed, for missing school.
- Death at an Early Age
Resource Type: Book
- Deschooling Our Lives
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Deschooling Our Lives would be of interest to people wishing to learn about alternative methods of education beyond the confines of the conventional school system. The book is a collection of short piece by various homeschooling advocates such as Holt, Tolstoy and Illich. The articles are both theoretical and practical with some concrete descriptions and examples of alternative schooling projects.
- Deschooling Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Dumbing Us Down
The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2017
After over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning "disabilities" are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected.
- Education for the TurnAround Decade: The Environmentally Friendly School
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- EducationSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Escape from Childhood
The Needs and Rights of Children
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A book about young people and their place, or lack of place in society today. It is about the institution of modern childhood, the attitudes, customs and laws that define children and locate children in life and determine to a large degree what their lives are like and how we, their elders, treat them.
- Freedom and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
- Freedom - Not License!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
A.S. Neill, the founder of Summerhill School, responds to questions about cdhild rearing.
- Gender segregation is humiliating and damaging
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The author looks at gender segregation, drawing on her own personal experiences in Iran but also in a broader context and the resulting psychological damage done to girls from a very young age.
- The Hidden Injuries of Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Sennett and Cobb look at human relations between people of different classes and analyze everyday life and ordinary situations to identify class signals that make people feel inadequate.
- High School
Resource Type: Book
- The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
- How Children Fail
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
The classroom should be a place of learning. Instead it is the scene of a continual battle in which teacher and child struggle to gain the advantage. The casualties are heavy. Some children fail outright. Others have the seeds of future failure implanted. And practically none come close to realizing their potential.
- I Won't Learn from You
And Other Inquiries Into the Control and Liberation of Learning
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
This collection of essays discusses what takes place when a student's intelligence, dignity, or integrity is compromised.
- Illich, Ivan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).
- In the Corporate Interest
The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Instead of Education
Ways to Help People Do Things Better
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Holt returns to the old truth that we learn things by doing them. He says this has been forgotten by today's educators, who believe we shouldn't start to do things until after they have been "learned."
- John Holt: Homeschooling Pioneer and Visionary Progressive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The stereotype of homeschooling as the haven for conservative, religious ideologues overshadows the movement's radically progressive roots. One of the movement's foremost pioneers, John Holt, was an egalitarian atheist who explicitly opposed patriarchy, corresponded with progressive thinkers including Paul Goodman and Noam Chomsky, and helped initiate the still emerging children’s rights movement.
- Merle Langbord Levine, Learning Challenges and Remedial Education Expert
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Little Red School-Book
Resource Type: Book
- Local schools perpetuate social inequality says survey
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
The more money your parents earn, the better you are likely to do in school. This is the conclusion of a massive study of the Toronto school population just released by the Board of Education.
- Lockdown High
When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Schools in the U.S. are increasingly imposed unprecedented restrictions on students' rights, dignity, and educational freedom. In what is being called the school-to-prison pipleline, the police and practices of the juvenile justice system, including so-called "zero tolerance" policies, are pushing students out of schools.
- Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Monographs on the Portuguese
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
- Monopoly Capital
An essay on American economic and social order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An analysis of American capitalism.
- A National Crime
The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Milloy chronicles the heart-breaking realities of the Residential School. This institiution separated thousands of Native children from their families in the Canadian Government's pursuit of "aggressive civilization."
- New Options for America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- The Newsletter #3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
Back to School
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
- People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Goodman offers his analysis of what is wrong with American society, and what could be done about it.
- Provincial Nutrition Society agrees new School Food and Beverage Policy is a positive step
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The Ontario Society of Nutrition Professionals in Public Health (OSNPPH) and the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA) applaud the Ontario Ministry of Education for the release of the School Food and Beverage Policy.
- Respect Bathurst
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
A protest against inviting a Harris Tory to speak at the closing of Bathurst Heights Secondary School.
- Risinghill
Death of a Comprehensive School
Resource Type: Book
- Rituals Of Failure
What Schools Really Teach
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Contenta writes that there is a hidden curriculum of passiveness in today's schools in Canada; instead of making students critical thinkers, the not-so smart students are made to feel they are just being prepared for the workforce.
- Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- School Reform and the Attack on Public Education
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
The education reform movement is part of a wider corporate and government plan to undermine democracy and strengthen corporate domination of our society.
- School's Out
The Catastrophe in Public Education And What We Can Do About It
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- The Schools
Resource Type: Book
- Schools Against Children
Resource Type: Book
- Schools & Schooling Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to schooling in the Sources directory for the media.
- Schule und Fabrik
Internationale Marxistische Discussion 30
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Skills Mania
Snake Oil in Our Schools?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
- Smooth Transition from Summer to School
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Tips and techniques to make the back to school transition easier.
- SNCC
The New Abolitionists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- Sources welcomes Commuto Inc.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Commuto is an online social bartering network where members trade in person with other members in their cities, schools, workplaces or any other communities they create.
- The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
- Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Their Schools... Our Kids
Resource Type: Article
- They're Going to be Stuffing Our Kids
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
Will technology in the classroom be a boon to educators in the future, or a disaster waiting to happen?
- 36 Children
Resource Type: Book
- This Book Is About Schools
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A collection of articles from This Magazine is About School containing many first person narratives that argue that the current school system is rife with inequality and repression. Repo points out that "free" schools have less freedom than most people expect. One theme that does emerge is that through the emergence of common responsiblities in the 'free" system adult and children alike have started to feel like members of a large intense clan -- they have begun to feel like citizens for the first time.
- This Magazine is about Schools
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
A Canadian magazine about schools and education founded in 1966.
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 5, Number 2
Spring 1971 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1971
- Today's Parent - Rogers Publishing
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- What Johnny Shouldn't Read
Textbook Censorship in America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
- When Hate Groups Come to Town
A Handbook of Model Community Responses
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
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