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This Just In: New Book at Education Library

School Effectiveness and Improvement Research, Policy and Practice: Challenging the Orthodoxy?

Publisher: Taylor and Francis, 2012-01-23.     312 pages

Publisher and Author information here.

UBC Library Holdings Information here.

Bill 22, Education News update from The Report Card

Read the latest education news and opinions from the Vancouver Sun Education blog, The Report Card, by Janet Steffenhagen here.

Here is an opinion from the one of the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association Trustee Directors on Bill 22 and its effect on BC education here.

© The Vancouver Sun

The Future of Public Education in Vancouver

The Vancouver School Board is has an article on the public opinion’s effect on the future of public education in Vancouver.  Find out more here.

Vancouver School Board Sectoral Review: Our Schools, Our Programs, Our Future pdf here.

Education News Update from The Tyee

The Ministry of Education has put money saved during the BC teacher’s strike towards a learning fund.

Read the full Tyee “The Hook” blog here. Written by Katie Hyslop April 2, 2012 02:45 pm.

Katie Hyslop reports on education and youth-issues for the Tyee Solutions Society“. © The Tyee News

Need some help with qualitative research? This just in: New book at the Education Library

Qualitative Research in Action: A Canadian Primer

by Deborah K. van den Hoonaard

Copyright Year: 2012

Part of a Series from Oxford University Press Canada: Themes in Canadian Sociology

Publisher’s Information here.

Author Information here.

UBC Library Holdings information here.