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General Gordon school to be torn down
A Vancouver school board decision to knock down a 100-year-old heritage school is “extremely disappointing,” but ultimately the fault of the provincial government, says a member of a group that has fought for five years to save the building. Trustees voted Monday not to ask the provincial government for additional funding to save General Gordon […]
Higher Learning Shifts West
In a fresh sign that Canada’s power balance is shifting ever more West, universities in Alberta and British Columbia are outperforming those in Ontario as academia is lured to newer universities that have richer grants and more up-and-coming research stars. “The intellectual centre of gravity of Canada is shifting west much faster than people realize,” […]
Seismic upgrades to Vancouver’s most vulnerable schools set at $618 million
Seismic upgrades to 48 of the city of Vancouver’s most vulnerable schools will cost $618 million, about 40 per cent of the amount budgeted for the entire province, according to a consultant’s report released Wednesday. The B.C. Ministry of Education, which largely financed the report, announced $1.5 billion over 15 years in 2005 to seismically […]
Do the best students make the best teachers?
The idea behind the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program is simple: the state pays top academic students to attend a public college, and in return they spend at least four years teaching in a public school. In the 20 years since the first fellows began teaching, the program has flourished. High school seniors selected for the program […]
Want good grades? Be sure to get your Zzzs!
Roberta Longpré is an expert in the sleep habits of teenagers, and it is all because over the past decade many have showed up in her classroom each morning yawning and exhausted. “In my last 10 years of teaching in four different schools I have seen a lot of tired teenagers,” says the head of […]
Students give e-learning a grade of incomplete
They’re addicted to Facebook and slaves to their smartphones — “digital natives” trying to navigate the post-secondary world. But as universities spend millions on e-learning tools to help cater to this tech-savvy generation, current students say they’re learning more in classes that don’t have all the technological bells and whistles. In fact, the first Canadian […]
The Secrets of a Good Principal
According to Michael Winerip, a good principal: has been a teacher feels at home in a cafeteria filled with 800 children eating rubbery scrambled eggs for breakfast has her own style protects her teachers from the nonsense sets her own high standards works with union leaders to carry out her educational agenda, and if she […]
Inner-city students need food and clothing
A teacher from Vancouver’s inner city has issued a heart-wrenching plea for help, saying she needs warm socks, shoes without holes, snacks for hungry tummies and — most of all — people to care for children living in poverty around Admiral Seymour elementary. “From where I sit every day, things are not okay,” Carrie Gelson […]
Come Celebrate Science!
Celebrate Science is a festival of B.C science writers for children and teens. This is a reminder that the event will be taking place on Saturday, 24 September 2011, from 8:30 am – 12:30 pm at the University of British Columbia’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum. This science extravaganza will appeal to teachers, teacher-librarians, student teachers, public librarians, child […]
B.C. schools to scrap $89m records software
The B.C. government says it will scrap an $89-million software program to track elementary- and high-school students’ attendance and marks after a consultant’s report concluded the software needs to be replaced.The province says schools will have to use the program until a new system is brought in, by about 2014. Introduced more than six years […]