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Considering its recent assault upon educators and public schools in Ontario, it’s not surprising that the provincial government has been slow to publicize the findings of a report it commissioned in 1998.

"Use your Bingo Voice," the teacher said, as the child tried to tell her story. We were in a kindergarten room doing a Telling Bee, and the five-year-old, eyes downcast, was shyly whispering her story to the class.

What do today's teenagers think about gender equity and job equity?

At the World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, women from the Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ) proposed an ambitious plan to fight poverty and violence against women on an international scale.

Having a disability means being frequently unable to participate in activities other people take for granted. It also means confronting negative attitudes and reactions, which can be very challenging.

For the first time in years, teachers have many excellent opportunities to move within their systems, to relocate to other jurisdictions, or to pursue positions of added responsibility.

Cable in the Classroom (CITC) provides commercial-free, copyright-cleared, educational television programming free of charge to public schools across Canada.

Theodor Seuss Geisel, who we all knew as Dr. Seuss, died in 1991 shordy before completing his final book. When his editor, Janet Schulman, received the 14 unfinished pages of coloured sketches and scrawled couplets, she knew that she had acquired something important.

Each child in your kindergarten classroom has different abilities, interests and experiences that shape and influence his or her learning.