What we need most to improve the quality of our learning is more contact with adults other than parents and teachers. We know what our parents think, because we’ve heard it every day for years. We’re slightly suspicious of what teachers say because they’re actually paid to say that. What we want to know is what do other adults think… and we don’t meet very many of those.

a group of teenagers in the UK, as quoted by John Abbott

Report: Public Education in Canada -- Facts, Trends and Attitudes

With this report, the Canadian Education Association provides a context for rethinking schools to drive dialogue and critical thinking about the challenges we face in educating all students to take their place in a world of dynamic social, technological and economic change.

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http://www.cea-ace.ca/res.cfm?subsection=rep&page=publiced

Keywords:

Grace Rubenstein

environmental education

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Report: Public Education in Canada -- Facts, Trends and Attitudes