- The Alberta Teachers' Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Badass Teachers Unite! Reflections on Education, History, and Youth Activism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Collection of essays on education and youth activism draws from Naison's research on Bronx History and his experiences defending teachers and students from school reform policies which undermine their power and creativity. Naison's focus is identifying teaching and organizing strategies that have worked effectively in New York, and could be implemented in impoverished communities elsewhere.
- Censorship Goes To School
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
- Chicago Charter Teachers Strike, Win
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Reporting on the unprecedented and successful strike of charter school teachers in Chicago.
- Chicago Teachers Strike Back
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Chicago Teachers Union stage a walkout that leads to an improved contract.
- 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.
- The Common Front and Quebec Teachers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
This article follows up Jules LeBlanc's piece in the last issue - "Becoming Political: The Growth of the Quebec Teachers' Union".
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1972.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
- Debunking the Fraser Institute's Latest Crusade: Teacher Merit Pay
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Fresh from the triumph of successfully promoting its fallacious school report card, this time in Alberta, the Fraser Institute is already scheming to peg teacher pay to student test scores and create a market for teachers. We should remember that the institute's success with school rankings would not be possible without over-the-top support from the corporate media.
- 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
- An Experiment in Democracy - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico by Maria Lorena Cook. (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996). Photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 359 pages. Hardback: $55, paperback $19.95.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- FOCALPoint: Focus on education challenges in Latin America, improving quality in Bolivia and Venezuela
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The June edition of FOCALPoint focuses on education challenges in Latin America. It highlights the need to improve quality after significant advances were made in broadening access. Regional perspectives on challenges ahead are complemented by views
- Helping Teens Stop Violence
A Practical Guide for Parents, Counselors and Educators
Resource Type: Book
Practical workshops to show teens how to stop the violence in their lives.
- Land and Community
Crisis in Canada's Countryside
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
- Literature as Pulpit
The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Oaxaca protests 2006
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).
- Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- An open letter to the Peel Catholic School Board from Jewish Canadians in support of Nadia Shoufani
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Jewish Canadians writing in support of Nadia Shoufani, a teacher in the Peel Catholic School Board who was suspended pending an investigation by the Ontario College of Teachers.
- Ophea (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Pakistan: Teachers and Farmers Protests Brutally Crushed in Sindh
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
On December 25, 2017, primary, secondary and high school teachers in Karachi held a defiant protest against the Sindh government due to its refusal to provide them with permanent jobs despite having agreed to do so in 2014. The provincial government is refusing to honor its agreement even after forcing teachers to pass a rigorous examination conducted by the National Testing Service and the University of Sindh.
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Freire maintains that every human being, no matter or "ignorant" or submerged in the "culture of silence," is capable of looking critically at the world in a dialogical encounter with others, and that provided with the proper tools for such an encounter, can gradually perceive his personal and social reality and deal critically with it.
- Student Protest
The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- Teacher
Resource Type: Book
- The UTLA Victory in Context
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
A look at the bigger picture surrounding the LA teacher's strike as part of the national upsurge that began with the 2012 strike of the Chicago Teachers Union.
- What Johnny Shouldn't Read
Textbook Censorship in America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
- What Los Angeles Teachers Won
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
A Los Angeles teacher's take on the successful strike.
- Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
Resource Type: Book
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
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