Results from the latest Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) reading assessment have indicated that a quarter of Ontario’s grade 3 students are failing to meet reading standards for their age group. Erin Panda, an assistant professor in the Department... View Article
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Emily Moorhead is a kindergarten teacher whose son in grade 1 was exhibiting early signs of dyslexia, a type of learning disability. Even as an elementary school educator, she still felt that she didn’t have the skills to help her... View Article
The ubiquitous presence of children who cannot read in Ontario classrooms has prompted the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) to launch Right to Read. Right to Read is a public inquiry into human rights issues pertaining to children with reading... View Article
Outdoor education is a term used to describe a broad range of activities that may encompass concepts and ideas learned in the classroom. Due to severe budget constraints, major cutbacks have been made to Ontario’s educational sector, noticeably to outdoor... View Article
Ontario’s declining test scores Peter Goffin of the Canadian Press reported that the latest results for Ontario’s standardized tests have identified a lack of improvement in math scores for the past several years. In fact, the results from the 2016-2017... View Article
Grade 3 and 6 reading, writing and math test scores in the Waterloo region are uniformly less than the provincial average, according to more detailed EQAO (Education Quality and Accountability Office) results released yesterday. See here. Performance is worst in... View Article