A Montreal man is launching a class-action lawsuit against several parent companies of major social media platforms, alleging that social media is designed to leverage dopamine – a neurotransmitter and hormone associated with pleasure (sometimes called the brain’s “reward centre”) – to entrap users into spending endless hours scrolling. It’s hard to know whether a […]
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The mission of universities has always been the passing on and expansion of human knowledge, which has made universities contribute much to the historic growth in Canadian and world income. This traditional mission is now threatened by policies designed and enforced by many employees that were recently hired by Canadian universities to work in offices
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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” – To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird will no longer be on the recommend reading list in Surrey schools. But rest assured, says Surrey school district communications director Ritinder Matthew: “We are not banning
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I never was very good at math. Some of my best Grade 10 math scores were achieved via the Forgotten Calculator scheme, whereby myself and a few co-conspirators gained permission to share a calculator, then passed it around with the right answer typed in by the one guy with some mathematical talent. This went along
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Starting in the 2023-2024 school year, students from kindergarten to Grade 9 in British Columbia schools will no longer receive letter grades. Instead, there will be a four-point scale that includes “Emerging”, “Developing”, “Proficient”, and “Extending” – along with “descriptive feedback”. Rather than report cards, there will be five “reporting events”, consisting of four “Learning
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Education is failing. It’s heading for skid row. But maybe we can fix it. “Even though Canada performed very well in the 2018 PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment)… scores have declined in all subjects,” the Fraser Institute reported four years later. If we care to fix it, and assuming we do, we need to
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Editor’s note: Readers who are already familiar with the background of this case can skip directly to the second section of the article. The Tragic Case of Richard Bilkszto Principal Richard Bilkszto was widely acclaimed by family, friends and colleagues for the care he showed towards his students over the course of his 24-year career.
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