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Kiernan, Julia E. – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2011
This article will examine the sociopolitical language contexts that exist in institutions of Canadian post-secondary education, through investigating how government policies affect the consumption and teaching of language in writing classrooms. A survey of Canadian multiculturalist policy, multilingualism, and post-secondary education in terms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Cultural Pluralism, Monolingualism
Human Resources Development Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 2002
This paper outlines the skills and learning challenges that Canada faces to ensure it meets its skills and learning requirements for the 21st century. It proposes a series of national goals and milestones against which progress can be measured over time and reported on regularly to Canadians. Following an introduction, Sections 2-5 discuss the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Competition, Developed Nations
Goldberg, Michelle P.; Corson, David – 1999
The extent to which Canadian employers recognize the informally acquired first languages of immigrants and aboriginal persons as prior learning qualifications for formal employment in the business, government, and education sectors was examined through a survey of organizations across Ontario. Personalized questionnaires were mailed to a sample of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Boards of Education, Canada Natives, Colleges
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1972
The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics discussed are education failings, including inadequate budges and ineffective courses, teaching, and curricula; evidence of success; compensatory education; education finance; dropout prevention; minority…
Descriptors: Failure, Budgets, Courses, Instruction
Towner, Isabel L., Comp. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
The present index, covering the nine issues of the monthly record of current educational publications from February, 1914, to January, 1915, inclusive, is designed to equip the series for use as an annual bibliography of education for 1914. During the period named the record was published each month, with the exception of June, July, and August,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Indexes, Government Publications