It has become commonplace for Canada to take last place in international comparisons of early childhood education and care (ECEC) arrangements or to be chastised and exhorted to do better. In 2007, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, following on an election commitment to bring in "full-day early learning", appointed a Special Advisor on…

In August 2008, the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) successfully began a new 11-month undergraduate education program, which features an "embedded practicum" and an emphasis on field-faculty collaboration. This is a considerable departure from the former 5-year concurrent and 2-year consecutive B.Ed.…

As one of two newly-hired Learning & Development (L&D) consultants for the Vancouver School District (VSD), the author, along with an administrator, was tasked to design and implement a new district-wide focus around two core questions: "What Do We Know About Learning?" and "What Are We Doing About It?" In the spring of…

Five major areas of activity within the planning function were described along with two minor areas. Planning tasks and competencies, the relationship of planning to other administrative units, the organization of the planning unit, and the interrelationships of the planning unit were discussed. (Author/RK)

The Edmonton Public School Board is committed to a program built upon differentiated staffing, continuous improvement of instruction, educational planning through the systems approach, and the human aspects of school management. (DB)

To develop systematic procedures for determining and closing gaps between current and desired conditions, the North York (Ontario) Board of Education developed a long-range plan in 1979 to provide guidelines for school consolidation in response to declining enrollment, to be included in broader context of planning for the total system. (NEC)

In collaboration with teachers, teacher librarians have a positive impact on student achievement in content areas, information literacy, and reading motivation and ability. Current professional issues of teacher librarians include role clarification, appropriate preservice education, standards for student information literacy, articulation of…

More people are involved in the process than ever before, but a few key actors, center stage, must still sift through the mass of evidence and make the final decision. (Editor)

A rationale alone is not enough - the school for the "in-betweeners" must also develop its own organization, program and instructional strategies if it is to be successful. (Editor)

Authors describe the changing nature of educational planning and administration, and attempt to clarify some of the semantic confusion surrounding these activities. (Author/MM)

Presents a synopsis of Britain's recent White Paper on education and how the United Kingdom is planning to spend its education money over the next decade. (Editor/RK)

Discusses the interface between the various educational organizations, the necessary information base, and planning mechanisms and structures.'' (Editor)

Authors analyzed the merits of focusing on the three R's and how each of those skills compared with the other as a priority for student development. (RK)