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Roundtable Breakfast Meeting: Education

Event Details

Time: November 12, 2009 from 7:45am to 8:45am
Location: Toronto, City Hall
Street: 100 Queen St. W. Committee Room 4
City/Town: Toronto
Website or Map: http://www.canurb.com/events/…
Event Type: breakfast, discussion
Organized By: Canadian Urban Institute
Latest Activity: Nov 4

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Event Description

Maintaining Quality in Education: Can it be Measured?

The Canadian Urban Institute is hosting a breakfast meeting featuring Annie Kidder, Executive Director of People for Education.

A rich legacy of the Metro Toronto government is the principle that Toronto residents should have access to quality education throughout the city, regardless of the income level of the postal code. But how are we to judge “quality”? Currently in Ontario we rely solely on scores in standardized tests administered in grades 3, 6, 9 and 10 to assess our schools' effectiveness.

What are the pros and cons of standardized testing? Do test scores present a complete picture? If low-ranking schools lack the resources to improve, what are parents to do?

Join us for a discussion about how to maintain and/or rediscover quality in public education. Cost $40, members of Urban Institute $32.

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Hi Briony, It is always hard to know how to start from zero when it comes to parent involvement. When I went to my first high school council meeting, the staff outnumbered the parents! There were only two of us, and the other mum showed up because h…
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Beth: About the article in the Globe... unfortunately links to that newspaper only work for about 7 days, and then you must pay for the articles :( It's different from the Star which allows you to view them for free as long as you have the link addr…
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Your link worked - yay Deb! It looks really good - I will read it this weekend :) The next newsletter writing deadline is March 1st, which seems to work well with your research deadlines. All the best with your next steps in January!
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