The Deputy Speaker of the House is reviewing comments made by NDP MLA Lisa Naylor (Wolseley) during question period, calling out “Fascists! Fascists!” while…
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The NDP is calling on the provincial government to take immediate action for teachers and school support that they say are “on the brink” due to COVID-19 by vaccinating all frontline school staff, increasing in-school mental health supports for staff and students and certifying education graduates to fill staffing shortages.
“Schools need to remain open but this government needed to vaccinate teachers weeks ago so that we could keep our schools open,” said NDP Education Critic Nello Altomare on Monday at the Manitoba Legislature. “We’re starting to see a direct result of not getting people vaccinated. We’re having school divisions like Evergreen close. We’re having Pembina Trails having to close some schools and now Louis Riel School Division. This is happening and this baked-in stuff that is going to be happening from now until the next few weeks could have been completely avoided had we vaccinated all the adults in our schools.”
Author of the article: Josh Aldrich
Publishing date: Apr 18, 2021 • 19 hours ago • 5 minute read • Dr. Anna Stokke, the chairperson of mathematics and statistics at the University of Winnipeg, says a restructuring of the math curriculum in Manitoba is needed to stop the decline in outcomes in the K-12 school system. Photo by Handout /University of Winnipeg
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A Manitoba math professor says we need to get back to the basics when it comes to teaching math in this province.
Anna Stokke, the chairperson of mathematics and statistics at the University of Winnipeg, said a paradigm shift in the approach to the way the subject is taught in K-12 levels is one of the biggest reasons math outcomes have plummeted over the last 20 years.