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Suicide Prevention Matters: Teen Program Shows Success

5/15/2013

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Research shows ‘Signs of Suicide’ prevention program helps reduce the number of attempts by high school students.


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2007 Survey of Canadian Attitudes Towards Learning

1/10/2011

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The annual Survey of Canadian Attitudes toward Learning (SCAL) provides a unique opportunity to gauge the opinions, perceptions, and beliefs of Canadians about various aspects of learning in Canada. Now in its second year, the survey was designed by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) in consultation with Statistics Canada, which administered the survey on behalf of CCL.

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http://www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Reports/SCAL/
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shifts in society

10/13/2008

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Our society has undergone radical shifts in everything from family structure to demographics to where and how families and children spend the majority of their time. Canadian schools, first developed in the context of the family farm and small town, have struggled to respond to the massive shifts that have taken place in how children are living their lives outside of the classroom walls.


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2007 Survey of Canadian Attitudes Towards Learning

10/13/2008

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The annual Survey of Canadian Attitudes toward Learning (SCAL) provides a unique opportunity to gauge the opinions, perceptions, and beliefs of Canadians about various aspects of learning in Canada. Now in its second year, the survey was designed by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) in consultation with Statistics Canada, which administered the survey on behalf of CCL.

Link: 
http://www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Reports/SCAL/
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signs of trouble

10/13/2008

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Canada has a strong history of investment (both philosophical and financial) in public education. Over 40 billion dollars is spent annually on getting our children from kindergarten to grade 12, yet public opinion polls show confidence in the education system is at an all-time low, home schooling is growing exponentially and the percentage of children attending private schools has doubled in the past 25 years. Although public education certainly appears to work for a percentage of our children, an increasing number of factors point to a deeply flawed system.


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Failing Our Kids: How We Are Ruining Our Public Schools

2/4/2008

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Our public schools are in danger of collapse, and if they do, we will all pay the price.

Healthy public schools are essential for a healthy economy and creating informed citizens. But we are neglecting our schools in a perversely malicious way: making impossible demands on them, strangling them financially, creating trivial changes for the sake of ideology, avoiding necessary changes, and just plain ignoring them.

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