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MacKay, Brenda, and Michael W. Firmin. "The historical development of private education in Canada." Education Research and Perspectives 35.2 (2008): 57-72 online; Mattingly, Paul H. and Michael B. Katz, eds. Education and Social Change: Themes from Ontario’s Past (1975) Peters, Frank. "Religion and schools in Canada." Journal of Catholic ...
Education reform is the name given to the goal of changing public education. The meaning and education methods have changed through debates over what content or experiences result in an educated individual or an educated society. Historically, the motivations for reform have not reflected the current needs of society.
Born 1940, Michael Fullan is a Canadian educational researcher and former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). He is noted for his expertise on educational reform, and has consulted to school districts, teacher groups, research institutes, and governments. [1]
During the 1990s, a new school reform movement became extremely influential in the United States. This movement sought to shift the focus of reform from the educational system and process to the student’s educational achievement. Two important features characterized the education reforms of this movement.
In the 1990s, the popular education reform movement has led to a resurgence of populist student activism against standardized testing and teaching, [118] as well as more complex issues including military/industrial/prison complex and the influence of the military and corporations in education. [119]
For example, the historical Reform Party of Canada advocated structural changes to government to counter what they believed was the disenfranchisement of Western Canadians. [11] Some social democratic parties such as the aforementioned Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Canadian New Democratic Party are still considered to be reformist ...
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Timothy Gray wrote that the book aroused an education reform movement with directives advocated by Herb Kohl, Jonathan Kozol, Neil Postman, and Ivan Illich. [37] Fifty years after the book was first released, Astra Taylor wrote that the idea of Summerhill selling millions of copies in the 2012 American education climate "seems absurd". [21]