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In The Public Square
by voicEd Radio
Conversations that seek to hold open the space for public discourse and dialogue related to public education.
Episodes
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Performance-based Funding Models for Post-Secondary ft. Dr. Marc Spooner
Dr. Marc Spooner is a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina. Marc is, arguably, Canada's foremost authority (and critic) on Performance-based models of funding for Post-Secondary institutions and we were pleased to continue our exploration of this topic today on Hurley...
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Performance-Based Funding ft. Chris Glover, MPP
Chris Glover is the Member of Provincial Parliament for the riding of Spadina-Fort York in Toronto. He serves as the NDP Critic for Colleges and Universities and so it is not surprising that he has some poignant (and important) things to say about the provincial government's plans to move towards…
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Performance-based Funding for Ontario Post-Secondary Institutions ft. Rick Kelly
Rick Kelly is the Founder of Just Us—A Centre for Restorative Practice. He joins us this morning to talk about his perspective on the Ontario government's plan to move towards a Performance-based Funding Model for Post-Secondary institutions.
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Performance-based Funding ft. Ann Weiler
Ann Weiler is an experiential educator for the Waterloo Catholic District School Board and her heart for quality arts education has her concerned about the Ontario government's move towards a performance-based funding model for the province's post-secondary institutions. What could this do to the...
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Performance-Based Funding ft. Dr. James Skidmore (Waterloo)
This week, the Ontario government re-introduced its plans to move to a Performance-based Funding model for the province's post-secondary institutions. Dr. James Skidmore is Director, Waterloo Centre for German Studies at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Skidmore joins me today to talk about the...
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Erika Shaker and Ken Saltman - Privatization and Corporatization of Canadian Public Education
Dr. Ken Saltman, Professor of Education Leadership, UMass is joined by Erika Shaker, Director of the Education Project at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. We continue to dig deeper into issues around the privatization and corporatization of the Canadian public education space.
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Ramon San Vicente and Alison Gaymes — Schooling for equity during and beyond COVID-19
How is the current COVID-19 crisis impacting students who are already marginalized by the traditional structures of schooling? Are there ways of rethinking our current approach to remote learning to embrace the principles of culturally relevant pedagogy? Alison Gaymes is Centrally Assigned...
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Dr. Ken Saltman - The Impact of Neoliberal Thinking on Public Education
Over the past few months, we’ve been exploring issues around our social commitments to public education, evidence that many governments have moved away from seeing education not as an investment, a cost centre, a market and, indeed, an industry. What’s at the heart of this apparent march towards...
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Monica Kristin Blair - A Primer on School Privatization
Monica Kristin Blair is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Virginia and a Jefferson Scholars Foundation Fellow. Blair’s dissertation is entitled, “From Segregation Academies to School Choice: The Post-Brown History of School Privatization." Monica sheds light on the history of the…
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Andre Grebenc - Education Funding in Ontario
Andréa Grebenc is Chair of the Halton District School Board. In this conversation, Ms. Grebenc shines a light on some of the aspects of public school funding that often go unnoticed and under-reported.
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Ricardo Tranjan - There Are Always Alternatives
Ricardo Tranjan is a political economist and senior researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Recently, Ricardo released a calculator that would allow Ontario citizens to measure the impact that government cuts to class sizes and the introduction of mandatory e-learning would…
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Harvey Bischof - Public Education in Ontario
Harvey Bischof is the president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, representing over 70 000 teachers and education workers across the province. In this conversation we talk about contract negotiations in a social media world, a narrative for mandatory e-learning and stories that...
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Joel Westheimer And Mark Kingwell - Citizenship in A Changing World
Stephen Hurley is joined by Mark Kingwell, Professor of Philosophy at University of Toronto and Joel Westheimer, University Research Chair in Democracy and Education at the University of Ottawa. The discussion includes changing notions of citizenship, the role of public institutions in promoting...
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Rachel Collishaw and Joel Westheimer on The Purpose of Schools
Rachel Collishaw is an Ottawa-based educator and current President of of the Ontario History and Social Science Teachers Association (OHASSTA) Joel Westheimer is University Research Chair in Democracy and Education at the University of Ottawa. Both of our guests on this first episode of "In the...
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Conversations that seek to hold open the space for public discourse and dialogue related to public education.
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