Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, Carl James, recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Conversation Canada about the Ontario Government's recent announcement to end streaming in Grade 9. "Last week, the Ontario government announced its plan to end streaming in Grade 9, something Education Minister Stephen Lecce acknowledged is a […]
Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, an assistant professor of early childhood in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Education talks about how to transition back to daycare after COVID-19. 鈥淒aycare will look a little different than what we were used to, classrooms will be smaller, children won鈥檛 be able to mingle with children from other groups鈥 says Vintimilla.
Isaac Garcia-Sitton, a doctoral student at 91亚色's Faculty of Education and director, International Education & English Language Institute at 91亚色鈥檚 School of Continuing Studies, has been named a finalist for RBC鈥檚 Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards. Isaac Garcia-Sitton For more than 12 years, the Canadian Immigrant Awards, organized by Canadian Immigrant Magazine, has recognized […]
This week, the Government of Ontario announced that it would end streaming in Grade 9. Research by Carl James, 91亚色 Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, is not alone in showing that Black Canadians and especially historic Black Canadians (compared with those from the families of recent immigrants) are far more […]
Ontario will stop suspending children from junior kindergarten to Grade 3, a practice that has been shown to disproportionately impact Black students. A 2017 study by Carl James, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community, and Diaspora at 91亚色's Faculty of Education, reported Black students were more than twice as likely as other racialized […]
Faculty of Education Professor Carl James led research on streaming back in 2017 and found it disproportionately affected Black students. 鈥淭he ways in which teachers perceive Black students鈥 abilities in the context of systemic racism means that we have assumptions about the potential of Black students.鈥
The Ontario government has announced academic streaming in Grade 9 will be ending. A 2017 study led by Carl James, Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, found that Black students were being streamed into the applied stream at significantly higher rates than other students. "Black students were not seen as having the capacity […]
Associate Professor and Graduate Program in Education Director Aparna Mishra-Tarc was recently interviewed by Black Agenda Report (BAR) about her book "Literacy of the Other: Renarrating Humanity".
IN THE MEDIA: Ontario to ban suspensions for children in Grade 3 and below in efforts to rid education system of racism
After years of calls from some educators and advocacy groups to end the practice, the Ontario government says it will do away with academic streaming in Grade 9. A 2017 report led by Carl James, Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora at 91亚色's Faculty of Education found that Black teens […]