An education advocacy group is speaking out against the province’s proposed plan to allow Grade 11 students to leave high school to join an apprenticeship program full time.
Earlier this year, the province announced that it intends to permit students to drop out of their final two years of high school to pursue an apprenticeship program in the skilled trades.
On Wednesday, People for Education released a report highlighting concerns with the change.
“The plan, if implemented, would make Ontario the only province or territory in Canada that would support students to leave high school to enter apprenticeships full time,…
The first resource specifically for teaching about genocide at the high school level in Quebec is now available in English.
Like the French version launched last year, Studying Genocide is only available online for now. It is the only material currently available covering 20th-century genocides, including the Holocaust, a subject that is not mandatory in Quebec schools.
Both versions are the fruit of many years of effort by Heidi Berger, the daughter of Holocaust survivors. She was appalled by the lack of knowledge of the Holocaust among Quebec high school students and inadequate materials for teachers who wanted to include…