Category: Reports – Provinces & States

62,596 Years of Instruction Are Lost Annually, and It Has Nothing to Do With COVID

The losses are quantified in often horrifying detail by Lost Opportunities, a report recently released by The Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project at UCLA and the Learning Policy Institute. NEPC Fellow Dan Losen of the UCLA Civil Rights Project wrote the report with Paul Martinez, also of the Civil Rights Project.”

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How an Indigenous land-based learning approach to STEM could help students across Canada: Toronto Star

““Indigenous people have these knowledges, they express them in different ways, though,” said Dokis, who is a member of Dokis Anishinabek Nation. “It’s passed on through story and observation. Whereas in western mathematics or sciences, those knowledges are expressed through numerical formulas.”

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Student engagement and attendance is impacted by online teaching: it needs to improve even after the pandemic

“The Clayton Christensen Institute report also recommends that schools establish virtual programs with autonomous staff and leadership that tap into the resources and expertise of their conventional school partners to “give students benefits that neither conventional schools nor virtual schools alone can offer.”

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