A guide for leading dropout prevention in your small town The Rural Advantage: Rallying Communities Around Our Students Calling all Executive Directors and CEOs: We’re proud to share with you our new case study research report, which calls on community organization leaders to consider a made-in-Canada approach that raises literacy rates, prevents early school leaving…
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By Virginia Lea, Darren E. Lund and Paul R. Carr Whiteness is a narrative. It is the privileged dimension of the complex story of “race” that was, and continues to be, seminal in shaping the socio-economic structure and cultural climate of the United States and other Western nations. Without acknowledging this story, it is impossible…
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By William T. Smale This book presents a range of perspectives on educational law and policy and is divided into three sections addressing topics related to K-12 education, fundamental freedoms and Charter rights, and contemporary legal issues surrounding higher education. This highly engaging book focuses mainly on Canadian case law and jurisprudence, but also draws…
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Edited by: Christine L. Cho, Julie K. Corkett, Astrid Steele Examining the subtle forms of aggression, violence, and harassment that occur in our society and manifest in institutions and places of work, the expert contributors collected here describe the experience of social marginalization and expose how vulnerable individuals work to navigate exclusionary climates. This volume…
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by Tonya D. Callaghan Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ensures equality regarding sexual orientation and gender identity in Canada. Despite this, gay, lesbian, and gender-nonconforming teachers in publicly-funded Catholic schools in Ontario and Alberta are being fired for living lives that Church leaders claim run contrary to Catholic doctrine about…
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Edited by Louis Volante, Don Klinger, & Ogul Bilgili This book examines immigrant student achievement and education policy across a range of Western nations. It is divided into 3 sections: Part 1 introduces the topic of immigrant student achievement and the performance disadvantage that is consistently reported across a range of international jurisdictions. Part 2…
Read moreEducation Sciences is preparing an issue on “Education for Social Transformation: Initiatives and Challenges in the Contexts of Globalization and the Sustainable Development Goals”, and we would like to invite you to consider submitting a research article to this issue. Guest Editor: Richard Maclure, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa (Canada) rmaclure@uottawa.ca https://education.uottawa.ca/en/people/maclure-richard Deadline for…
Read moreDrs Catherine McGregor and Shailoo Bedi, University of Victoria, Canada, will be editing a book entitled Diverse Leadership Landscapes: Exploring the Terrain. Our goal is to create a collection of research chapters written by scholars and practitioners who are interested in exploring the diverse terrain of diversity leadership: both those who are themselves members of…
Read moreInvitation to the 2018 R.W.B. Jackson Lecture Greetings, Join us on June 13th for the R.W.B. Jackson Lecture featuring Dr. Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, in conversation with CBC’s Duncan McCue. Connect and network with alumni, colleagues and friends at OISE’s signature spring lecture and community reception. 2018…
Read moreThe Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, in collaboration with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), is organizing a national conference in Toronto, Ontario, on October 4-5, 2018. The purpose of the conference is to highlight the use of Canadian data in studies related to PISA and other large-scale assessment projects and to promote the…
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