Toronto Star (Canada)

Kris Rushowy
Alfie Kohn is a Boston-based author and speaker on educational and parenting issues who wrote The Homework Myth: Why our kids get too much of a bad thing.

Sarah Barmak
A tentative deal struck just hours before the deadline of 12:01 this morning averted a province-wide strike of college support staff.

Louise Brown
The gap between funding for high schools versus grade schools – which the elementary teachers' union pegs at about $711 per student – could spark the first labour strife in Ontario schools since the McGuinty government

Do students learn anything by completing 60 extra math problems at home? Is it fair for kids from affluent families who have a computer at home – not to mention parental help – to work on assignments, while poorer kids might not have either?

Rob Ferguson
"The government is failing our children," said the mother of three, noting the IBI treatments that cost about $50,000 a year "are known to really, really help these children."

Mexican children in poorer areas of Monterrey are further ahead in kindergarten than the average Canadian kid, says new research led by renowned expert Dr. Fraser Mustard.

Delegates representing 220,000 teachers across the country have unanimously...

Recess was Allie Long's favorite part of the day until the second grade, when some of her friends on the playground pressured her to join their whisper campaign against a classmate.

Over the four times Dawn Beharry has been stricken with the same, persistent infection since January, she has had one wish: that she could see a family doctor who would remember her. She can't find one.

BARRIE -- The mother of an autistic girl says the public school board was "completely unprofessional" to formulate a theory that her daughter was being sexually abused based on a psychic's perception.

A startling demographic snapshot of students across Canada's largest school board shows the system is failing to help children overcome roadblocks of culture, race, poverty and family background.

When a quarter-million Ontario school children were prepping for last week's province-wide tests in the "3 Rs," they may have overlooked a surprising study tool.

OTTAWA–A new study says a smaller percentage of Canadian children participated regularly in organized sports activities in 2005 than in 1992, and the decline was larger for boys.

The York University student council has voted in favour of a motion to ban funding to anti-abortion groups on campus.

Education Minister Kathleen Wynne has taken a first step toward seizing the Toronto Catholic District School Board's purse strings by sending an investigator to review its finances.