Ontario's back-to-school plan isn't working, and without a new approach, children will suffer over the long term

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Edited by Merli Tamtik, Roopa Desai Trilokekar and Glen A. Jones

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of international education policy in Canada, tracing the complex history of when, how, and why it emerged as a policy area of strategic importance.

ELP Prof Katyn Chmielewski and Omar Khan, a computer scientist, analyzed TDSB registration survey results and concluded that parents in the most economically advantaged schools overwhelmingly opted for in-person rather than virtual school. In contrast, a smaller share of parents in middle and lower-income schools preferred in-person school.

On July 31, the Ontario Ministry of Education announced that it would allow parents to choose between sending their children to school in the fall or taking part in school board-provided remote learning.This creates questions of equity and access.

Professor Carol Campbell and colleagues released two new reports: Considerations for re-opening Ontario schools - Principles, ideas, & strategies and A gentle return to school: Go slow to go fast

Gwendolyn Cleveland is a PhD student in the Higher Education program. She is also a life-long learner, a storyteller, a mother, a nana, a sister, a friend, a teacher, a student and a nurse.

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed inequities throughout society. However, the pandemic also provides the opportunity for change in Canadian post-secondary institutions.

Rewarding knowledge: Shifting constructions of merit at the University of London during the twentieth century

In this SRHE funded study, Emma will examine how certain types of knowledge have been recognized and thus how merit has been determined and rewarded over time. This will be examined by using the University of London (UoL) archives on scholarships from 1903 to 1993.

Listen to Amelia Merrick, AECD PhD student, speaking on CBC Radio about rolling out of the Canada Service Grant

Yasmine Hassen, PI, Jann Houston and Ian Liujia Tian, co-applicants, titled their research: False Freedom: biocarding, bio-surveillance and pedagogies for community care in the world of Covid-19.
They will highlight the potential impacts of biocarding and explore the ways immunity passports for Covid-19, as a solution to enable people to move about their communities, could disproportionately affect certain members of our society including queer, trans, disabled, Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Colour communities.

In this conversation, Professor Pasi Sahlberg, Professor Carol Campbell and Andrea Stringer discuss various global approaches to professional learning and how these can empower educators.

Dr. Grace Karram Stephenson and Jacqueline Beaulieu, PhD Candidate show why post-secondary student services are 'essential services'

The International Symposium on Transformative Leadership and Decolonial Praxis is an educational leadership meeting for practitioners, community members, faculty, both local and international and graduate students to network and share their research. We invite scholars, practitioners, community members, faculty and graduate students to share their research and insights in educational leadership.
Please note the deadline for submission is April 04th, 2020.
Learn more and submit a presentation: https://tinyurl.com/vfkd7rd

Dr. Valerie Damasco and team will use the Toronto COVID-19 Action Initiative grant to help universities understand and respond to the mental wellness needs of students and communities.

Profs Marcelo Vieta, AECD/OISE and Fiona Duguid, Cape Breton University, explain how co-operatives can and should be key to Canada's economic rebuilding and rethinking - now and following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Congratulations to Jason Brennan, Entisar Yusuf, Emma Sabzalieva and Susan He for their outstanding student leadership, service, and commitment to LHAE/OISE and the University of Toronto.

ELP Professor Carol Campbell discusses Ontario's Teaching Learning and Leadership Program (TLLP) and the role it plays in promoting knowledge exchange and innovative teaching practices.

Caroline Alphonso is The Globe and Mail's education reporter, covering issues in kindergarten through to Grade 12. Caroline joined the LHA 6008: Special Topics - Current Issues and Controversies in Ontario Educational Policy class to share an inside look at the relationship between news media and educational policy.

OISE Dean Glen Jones provides update on OISE COVID-19, remainder of term plans, Central Support Services, OISE Wellness, and UTQAP reviews.

Please check regularly the message from the University regarding Coronavirus.

QS World University Rankings has placed the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) as the 5th best educational institution in the world - its highest ranking to date.

Learn more about Dr. Joelle Rodway and her teaching and research interest.s

Dr. Alex Abramovich on CBC Radio on causes of LGBTQ2S youth homelessness.

Dr. Sachin Maharaj discusses the impact of the ongoing teachers' strike.

Professor Jennifer Wemigwans is a Co-Investigator on a Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation research grant, Mapping Toronto: Engaging Indigenous Knowledge

Professor and LHAE chair, appeared on CBC Radio's Ontario Today to talk about class sizes with host Rita Celli.

The OISE community is mourning the loss of Professor Bonnie Burstow, an exceptional scholar, author and activist.

Amani Hitimana, Adult Ed PhD student, firmly believes that volunteering is imperative to improving society. He is the newly appointed chair of the national advisory committee for Canada's Volunteer Awards.

In Workers' Self-Management in Argentina, AECD Professor, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the emergence and consolidation of Argentina's worker-recuperated enterprises. Grounded in class-struggle Marxism and a critical sociology of work, the book situates the ERT movement in Argentina's long tradition of working-class activism and the broader history of workers' responses to capitalist crisis.

Professor Leesa Wheelahan has been reappointed to the William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership
for a second five-year term. The Davis Chair was established in 1999 to support and recognize distinguished and relevant expertise in Community College Leadership in OISE's Higher Education program,
and has been held by Professor Wheelahan since she joined OISE in 2014.