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Students are diving deeper into creative problem-solving by focusing on project-based learning, says PEI Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Doug Currie.

Classes for summer learning opportunities on Prince Edward Island begin July 4 and continue for six weeks. Each credit consists of 110 hours of instructional time. Cooperative education courses may be completed in fewer than six weeks depending on arrangements for work placements.

The Assembly of First Nations has released a one-year status report on the national Call to Action on First Nation education, showcasing progress and partnerships in working toward fairness in education for First Nations and encouraging others to join the effort.

Summer slide, the brain-drain that occurs during the holiday months when young people are out of class, can be a problem, especially for those who struggle in school.

Windsor’s job-shadowing program for people with disabilities began 20 years ago, although it was on sabbatical for the past four years, until being revived in 2011.

The face of the non-profit sector is getting younger as the baby boomer population retires but there’s also a new effort under way to make sure it gets more diverse as the workforce is renewed.

NALD is pleased to announce that the ESL Literacy Network at Bow Valley College has won the 2011 Innovative Technology Award. The network was chosen for providing ESL literacy practitioners with access to innovative online resources that inform classroom instruction and support ongoing professional development.

Building on what has been learned over the past decade about the impacts of violence on learning, here are three groundbreaking online tools that can help students to learn more effectively and help programs to improve their practices.

In Renaissance Italy, imitation was widely regarded as a crucial education tool, challenging students to learn by copying elements of a pre-existing work. Today, such an exercise would be condemned as plagiarism.

James Cummins, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Language Learning and Literacy says: “Education is a part of society that gets a lot of money spent on it, so there needs to be support for all kinds of education research, even if it contradicts conventional thinking.”

With a high school dropout rate in some of Canada's low-income communities higher than 70 per cent, Pathways to Education Canada is encouraging valedictorians to use their graduation speeches to help spread the word that all students deserve the support and opportunities needed to graduate.