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The Hidden Agenda: Methodist Attitudes to the Ojibwa and the Development of Indian Schooling in Upper Canada, 1821-1860 M.A. thesis. University of Toronto. McLaren, Scott (2019). Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada. University of Toronto Press. Nicolson, Joanne. "1871 Education Act". Radical Reform ...
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.
Fair Vote Canada (FVC) is a Kitchener, Ontario-based grassroots, nonprofit, multi-partisan citizens' movement—created in June 2001—that calls for the replacement of the first-past-the-post electoral system with proportional representation, as part of electoral reform in Canada. [14] [15] Friends of Canadian Broadcasting political
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.
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 ...
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The Free Speech Movement was the first US student movement that became a focus of scholarly attention into student activism. [ 116 ] The largest student strike in American history took place in May and June 1970, in response to the Kent State shootings and the American invasion of Cambodia .
The Reform Party of Ontario, like the Reform Association of Ontario and the Reform Ontario movement before it, was an Ontario provincial version of the federal Reform Party of Canada. Though populism makes up the main thrust of its political ideology, Reform Ontario focused on a mixture of fiscal, social, and libertarian conservatism.