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Parents say older students continue to fall victim to a lack of government supports as they face another two weeks of online learning amid high cases of COVID variants.
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And as Premier Jason Kenney added further restrictions provincewide Thursday, he confirmed most other grade 7 to 12 students in urban areas will also move to online learning, including all Calgary schools beyond those two districts.
“The restrictions currently in place will not bend the curve fast enough to get this under control by summer,” Kenney said, promising to work with restaurants to ensure protocols are followed during outdoor dining.
Public School Boards Association of Alberta president asks LaGrange to delay rollout of draft K-6 curriculum
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Public School Boards Association of Alberta president asks LaGrange to delay rollout of draft K-6 curriculum
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As social studies professors from all 10 of Alberta’s faculties of education, we have grave concerns about the draft K-6 social studies curriculum recently released by Education Minister Adriana LaGrange.
It rests on shaky foundations
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The proposed curriculum is grounded in a flawed assumption that before students can engage in critical and creative thinking, they must first accrue a massive body of knowledge. Knowledge is, of course, important. However, learning hundreds of discrete facts disconnected from larger ideas makes it extremely difficult for students to make meaningful connections to their own lives and to broader understandings of concepts such as democracy, human rights, and social cohesion ideas that help us live well together.