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Geoff JohnsonTimes Colonist |
Invasion of privacy and dignity is an ongoing problem across the country. The Canadian Centre for Child Protection says millions of cases of...
There’s no question that the recently released 2023 B.C. Adolescent Health Survey administered by the McCreary Centre Society, a non-government...
PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment, measures 15-year-old students’ reading, mathematics and science literacy in 80...
As a newbie teacher of Grade 11 English in 1966, I was required to teach spelling. I did this by introducing five new words each day and teaching them...
When it comes to post-secondary students majoring in fields such as history, literature or psychology, we often hear the same question from parents...
You’d think that since Socrates, Plato and Aristotle sat together under the legendary plane tree in Athens around 430 BC, the debate about whether...
The debate about the use of standardized tests as a measure of academic performance or potential has been reinvigorated by the decision of a number of...
When a neuroscientist and noted psycholinguistic researcher like Maryanne Wolf says it’s important that children read printed books, not just via...
Canada’s population is aging. The proportion of seniors in Canada will rise from 16.9% to 21.0% over the next 10 years, according to the...
The new year is a good time to re-examine the roots of some frenzied group behaviours, ranging from trucker blockades to unruly disruption of school...
I’d never considered using the words “artificial intelligence” and “surfing” in the same sentence. Having grown up in Australia, I know a...
It has been a while since Canadian communications scholar Marshall McLuhan ignited the North American educational movement for media literacy in the...
Soon-to-graduate high school students are starting to think seriously about what’s next. For many, that includes post-secondary education — within...
Sophistry has gained a stronger foothold than ever before in our everyday experiences and those of our kids. Sophistry, ambiguity, equivocation,...
My oh my how the TV news channels do love a war. Brave news anchors dressed in camo gear report over explosions while tanks, armoured vehicles and men...
In its ham-fisted rush to issue its 2022 “ranking” of B.C.’s elementary schools using only the results of the Education Ministry’s...
Any time the words “public school system” and “trans” anything are used in the same sentence these days, there’s a good chance raucous...
My first experience with book banning came when, at the age of 15, I somewhat precociously read Irish novelist James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist...
In 1968/69, I taught at a “selective/regional” New South Wales public high school for “gifted” kids grades 8 to 12. Students were selected on...