Adult Education Professional Specialists Association

In a recent article, Noam Chomsky discusses the ‘assault on public education’ and how the ‘failures’ in public education are bad for all of society–and not simply those who avail themselves (or can avail themselves) of that education–; but, also, that these failur...

The Current ‘Liberal’ government, much like Harper’s Conservative federally, has moved to radically change how politics is done in BC and in Canada. Much as Harper has hidden from public scrutiny, tried to control the press, and limit public discourse, so too has BC Premier, Christ...

There is a (official) petition put up by Dan Laidlaw (a teacher at South Kamloops Secondary School) aiming to ask the BC Lt. Gov. to deny Royal Assent to the Liberals Bill C-22.   Please consider singing this petition.   From the petition site:   “The Bill erodes democratic rights and due proc...

There is a (official) petition put up by Dan Laidlaw (a teacher at South Kamloops Secondary School) aiming to ask the BC Lt. Gov. to deny Royal Assent to the Liberals Bill C-22.   Please consider singing this petition.   From the petition site:   “The Bill erodes democratic rights and due proc...

We’ve listened to the government, the media, and average walk-a-day folks on the street talk about how, in these fiscally lean times, BC cannot afford anything other than a ‘net zero’ approach to collective bargaining. Many teachers, not surprisingly, have also accepted such statem...

John Naughton, of the Guardian’s, Observer, will be releasing his his latest book in January 2012. Its entitled, What You Really Need to Know About the Internet: From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg. This is an extended version of his excellent 2010 essay “The Internet: Everything You Ever Neede...

Garret Keizer recently wrote one of the most honest and insightful articles on being a teacher that I have ever read. It is available in the most recent (September) Harper’s magazine and, because he is a free-lance writer, I would urge people to purchase the magazine ($8) to read it because th...

Here are a few resources regarding critical thinking that teachers might find useful. First, Roland Case’s The Critical Thinking Consortium (TC2) is a BC based organization that has been around for some time. I’ve talked to Roland several times over the years and have been to several of ...

Stephen Lewis’ eulogyfor Jack Layton. A fine tribute and who better to send Jack off than Stephen Lewis. As Jack noted in his letter: “Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one – a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build ...

UPDATE: For folks in the GVRD area there’s a movement afoot to name the 10th Avenue bike lane “Jack Layton Way.” You can get more information here. Today, Canada lost one of its most important political leaders. Jack Layton, irrespective of political affiliations, was one of the fe...