Not long ago I posted articles here on what makes an excellent school and a successful principal. I also published my disagreement with the Toronto District School Board decision to fund an Africentric black-focused school. This post will deal with an excellence piece in the Toronto Magazine section of Saturday’s National Post. Written by Ben Kaplan, it [...]
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Monday’s front page of the Toronto Star featured a black-and-white photograph of a man in a military cap. Underneath were the words “Suharto: 1921-2008.” The former Indonesian president died on Sunday at the age of 86 from multiple organ failure. As his health had been deteriorating for some time, there was talk [...]
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Cynics Unlimited has written an excellent follow up to the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) historically regressive decision last night to approve the offering of segregated programs and a blacks-only high school to open in the fall of 2009.
I will not call it a black-focused school today because that is the politically correct wording of a decision [...]
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Given the decision that is imminent by the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) about the black-focused school in Toronto, we should all be shouting from the roof tops about what makes both a good principal and a successful school — starting and ending with total school board support in terms of the allocation of resources and [...]
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Assuming the trustees of the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) approve the blacks-only pilot programs and stand-alone school at tomorrow night’s meeting, the Toronto Sun’s Moira MacDonald is saying in a column today that failure is not an option. And, I whole heartedly agree with that hope — in spite of the fact that I [...]
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In the next week I will be doing a series of two articles on school success starting today with “what makes a school successful” — whether elementary, middle school or high school. A related article will follow on what makes a good school principal.
To get a non-partisan view of this issue, I have done an Internet review of the literature using selected sources throughout [...]
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Canada is a multicultural country. As such, it should be self-evident to everyone that no matter where parents send their children to learn, whether the schools are public, Catholic or private, they should experience: (1) exemplary teaching; (2) the most relevant and inclusive curriculum possible; (3) acceptance of who they are, (4) the realities of self-discipline and individual responsibility; [...]
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Update: Even the Toronto Star is against the proposal of a blacks-only school because it is the “wrong answer.” Moreover, while my previous post below mentioned the public meeting to be held on Tuesday, January 29th, I was not aware of tonights (January 22nd) behind-closed-door meeting.
On why a black’s-only school is the wrong answer, the Star editorial [...]
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I never obessessed over MySpace. I’ll admit to having had a lurker account; how else could I check out the seemingly endless stream of grainy cell phone pics snapped in bathroom mirrors across America? And, later we did set up a QuadMag MySpace account where I sometimes check in. But I’ve never personalized a MySpace [...]
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About two decades or so ago the Black community in the United States became embroiled in a debate over what to call themselves. Some suggested that the term “African American” replace “Black,” which itself had succeeded “Negro” (now considered somewhat offensive by some Blacks, even though talk show host Oprah Winfrey once used it [...]
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