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- Academic Fraud and the Ponzi Scheme of 'Higher Learning'
Higher Education in Crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
It’s sad to say, but U.S. higher education increasingly resembles a pyramid scheme. The schools at the top continue to compete for elite students, by appealing to prospective applicants via the creation of a slew of amenities (the "climbing wall" phenomenon) and offering a unique college "experience." Non-elite colleges and universities are the losers in this process, fighting with each other for a dwindling number of state tax dollars amidst huge increases in tuition costs.
- 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.
- Brock University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Cathy's Crawly Composters
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- 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.
- Social and Sexual Revolution
Essays on Marx and Reich
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
A collection of essays by Bertell Ollman. Ollman tackles issues such as Karl Marx's concepts of class, class consciousness, and communism; he argues for the absorption of Wilhelm Reich's insights about the social function of sexual repression in maintaining capitalist relations; and he dicusses the various problems involved in trying to teach 'Marxism' in an academic context without destroying its central purpose as an instrument of class struggle.
- Sources welcomes the Canadian Council on Animal Care
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Canadian Council on Animal Care oversees the ethical care and use of animals in science across Canada through the work of veterinarians, scientists and the public.
- Studies in Socialist Pedagogy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Teach My Learning Kits - Let's Talk Numbers!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Research Shows Preschoolers Benefit From Number Talk At Home!
- Teacher
Resource Type: Book
- Teaching as a Subversive Activity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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