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Employment, Education, and Income for Canadians with Developmental Disability: Analysis from the 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability
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Berrigan, Patrick; Scott, Craig W. M.; Zwicker, Jennifer D. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
This study assessed needs and outcomes for people with developmental disability (DD) to understand the socioeconomic status of this group prior to implementation of the Accessible Canada Act in June 2019. The 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD) was used to analyze data for a sample of individuals with self-reported disability. Data related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developmental Disabilities, Socioeconomic Status, Employment
From Zero Tolerance to Student Success in Ontario, Canada
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Winton, Sue – Educational Policy, 2013
Since 2003, Ontario, Canada's high school graduation rates have increased 13% while suspensions and expulsion rates have simultaneously decreased. This article examines relationships between the province's safe school policy and Student Success/Learning to 18 (SS/L18), a policy designed to increase graduation rates. Analyses of teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Policy, Dropouts, Zero Tolerance Policy
Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress. Volume 11, Number 6
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Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Obama Sets Timeline for NCLB Revamp: President Calls on Congress to Send Him an Education Reform Bill "Before…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Baccalaureate Degrees at Ontario Colleges: Issues and Implications
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Panacci, Adam G. – College Quarterly, 2014
This paper identifies and examines major issues and implications of the proposal to substantially increase the number of applied baccalaureate degrees offered by Ontario's Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, including increasing four-year applied degree offerings and introducing three-year applied degrees. Currently, provincial legislation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bachelors Degrees, Colleges, Educational Development
In Nova Scotia, a Mi'kmaw Model for First Nation Education
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Lewington, Jennifer – Education Canada, 2012
In 1999, under federal government legislation, Mi'kmaw communities in Nova Scotia won the right to manage the education of their children for the first time in a century. With support from Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey, an education authority that provides central services, local Mi'kmaw schools deliver language immersion courses, culturally-appropriate…
Descriptors: High School Students, Foreign Countries, Graduation Rate, Federal Legislation
The LSS Review. Volume 2, Number 2
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Rohland, Mark, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2003
Work-based education (WBE), including traditional vocational education and other career-focused programs, was an important curricular component in American schools for most of the 20th century. The 1990s was a period of substantial change for work-based education (WBE). Spurred on by a concern about the international competitiveness of the…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Tech Prep, Education Work Relationship