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  1. Class Warfare
    The Assault on Canada's School
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
  2. Corporations Meet Resistance Inside Boston's Schools
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    The corporate elite are a small minority and their values are the opposite of most peoples' values. Things that most people consider immoral, like deliberately increasing the number of students who fail to graduate, are ruthlessly pursued by the corporate elite in order to control people and to justify increasing inequality in society.
  3. A crisis manufactured by the Harris government
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    Moving at breakneck speed to ram through ill-conceived ideologically driven schemes with mindless arrogance.
  4. Democracy and Education
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1916   Published: 1997
    John Dewey's classic work on the nature of education, and the ideal ways in which children should be educated.
  5. Dewey, John
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. (1859-1952).
  6. Educating Kids for Jobs for the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    We distribute jobs by social class. If we ‘qualify’ all students with a college degree, then 100% of students will be competing for the 22% of jobs requiring college degrees. The answer here is not to push more kids in to college but pay better salaries to those jobs not requiring college.
  7. High Stakes Testing
    Why Are They Doing This To Our Kids?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2000
    The tests are very destructive educationally. They test students on such a broad range of materials that teachers have to rush through the curriculum; they cannot allow real discussion or in-depth study. Education is reduced to memorization of disconnected facts.
  8. Living and Learning
    The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1969
    The "Hall-Dennis" Report, proposing new objectives and direction in education in Ontario.
  9. MCAS: Why Is This Being Done to Our Kids?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    High stakes tests are meant to legitimize the growing inequality of society. They are designed to drive millions of students out of school so that, if they end up with a low-paying job or no job at all, they will blame themselves instead of the corporate system. Tests like MCAS are not about education but about social control.
  10. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
  11. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  12. School Reform and the Attack on Public Education
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    The education reform movement is part of a wider corporate and government plan to undermine democracy and strengthen corporate domination of our society.
  13. Skills Mania
    Snake Oil in Our Schools?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
  14. You'll Never Be Good Enough: Schooling and Social Control
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    The remarkable thing about the public schools isn't that some teachers become demoralized and "burned out," or that some students drop out or do poorly, but that so many teachers and students achieve so much in the face of a system designed to fail.

Experts on Education Reform in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
  2. Inter-American Development Bank


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