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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Canadiana
Author: The State of the System
Author: Paul W. BennettPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228002273
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Over the last fifty years, Canada's public schools have been absorbed into a modern education system that functions much like Max Weber's infamous iron cage. Crying out for democratic school-level reform, the system is now a centralized, bureaucratic fortress that, every year, becomes softer on standards for students, less accessible to parents, further out of touch with communities, and surprisingly unresponsive to classroom teachers. Exploring the nature of the Canadian education order in all its dimensions, The State of the System explains how public schools came to be so bureaucratic, confronts the critical issues facing kindergarten to grade 12 public schools in all ten provinces, and addresses the need for systemic reform. Going beyond a diagnosis of the stresses, strains, and ills present in the system, Paul Bennett proposes a bold plan to re-engineer schools on a more human scale as the first step in truly reforming public education. In place of school consolidation and managerialism, one-size-fits-all uniformity, limited school choice, and the "success-for-all" curriculum, Bennett advocates for a new set of priorities: decentralize school governance, deprogram education ministries and school districts, listen to parents and teachers, and revitalize local education democracy. Tackling the thorny issues besetting contemporary school systems in Canada, The State of the System issues a clarion call for more responsive, engaged, and accountable public schools.
Facing Reality
Author: James M. GilliesPublisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780886450441
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In this book, addressed primarily to business leaders, politicians, andpublic servants, the author speculates about the economic problems thatchanging international conditions appear to be creating; argues that existing policies no longer work and must be replaced with new ones basedon a new national consensus about economic goals; reviews the ways businessand government have worked together in the past to formuate economic strategies; and suggests ways the government can create a new consensus andthe prospects for its success in doing so.
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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Automated Guideway Transit
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology AssessmentPublisher:
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Category : Personal rapid transit
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Fields of Authority
Author: Jack LucasPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487500181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
In Fields of Authority, Jack Lucas provides the first systematic exploration of local special purpose bodies in Ontario. Lucas uses a policy fields approach to explain how these local bodies in Ontario have developed from the nineteenth century to the present. "
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2340
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Canada: The State of the Federation 1986
Author: Peter M. LesliePublisher: IIGR, Queen's University
ISBN: 0889114250
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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State Support for Religious Education
Author: Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004149805
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Aimed at those interested in the vital relationship between international human rights law and domestic policy. This work provides a set of source documents concerning the legal and political history of religious education in a multicultural environment and especially in Ontario, Canada's largest province.