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Feb 1, 2022 · There are two limitations to the way the measure above captures school closures. First, we do not separate elementary schools from high schools. Rather, we code a province according to whichever is the most stringent on a given day. Second, the centre’s stringency index looks only at provincially mandated school closures and is consequently ...
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Aug 26, 2024 · Between 2020 and 2022, the district’s enrollment had dropped by more than 10%. Janice Kpor has availed herself of an Urban-Suburban education option in the Rochester area for two of her children ...
Feb 25, 2023 · The association representing 31 English-language public school boards with more than 1.3 million students is calling for an end to the ban on school closures brought in by the previous Liberal ...
Oct 3, 2024 · The same government documents that admit the pressures of a ban on school closures appear to validate the TDSB’s assessment of financial difficulty, showing a growing number of school boards are ...
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Access to the Internet and an appropriate device
With school closures and a reliance on remote learning, it is more important than ever for students to have access to the internet and an internet-enabled device, such as a computer or tablet. Prior to the pandemic, Statistics Canada found that children in higher income families were in a better position to support on-line learning. While only 1.2% of households with children do not have access to the internet at home, the figure is somewhat higher for households in the bottom 25% of the inco...
Parental education and concerns about learning from home
This reflects the well-established finding that parental educational attainment is highly correlated with children's academic success, as highly educated parents tend to be in a better position to support their children's learning in multitude of ways: they are better able to navigate school systems, tend to be economically advantaged and, during the pandemic, were more likely to be working from home. As a result, communities with higher proportions of parents with post-secondary education ma...
Children who were already reporting challenges associated with their mental health before the pandemic may be particularly vulnerable. In 2019, 17% of children and youth aged 5 to 17 reported poor or fair mental health and 5% of children and youth aged 5 to 17 reported having a diagnosed anxiety disorder. It's important to consider that not all chi...
In May 2020, it was reported that approximately one in four Canadians (26%) could be financially vulnerable to the economic lockdown. By comparison, in March 2020, nearly three in ten (29%) Canadiansreported that the COVID-19 situation was already having a moderate or major impact on their ability to meet financial obligations or essential needs. I...
In 2014, one-third of Canadians aged 15 and older (33%) reported experiencing some form of child maltreatment before age 15. Childhood physical abuse was reported by 26% of Canadians, while 8% reported sexual abuse. About 93% of victims of childhood physical and/or sexual abuse did not report the abuse to the police or child protection services bef...
The challenges faced by diverse groups are not without consequences. For example, results from Statistics Canada crowdsourcing initiatives have shown that among participants, including youth, recent immigrants, certain groups designated as visible minorities, gender diverse people, and Indigenous people, were also more likely to report symptoms con...
Jun 18, 2024 · Attendance among Hispanic students also took a bigger hit than it did among other student populations: Hispanic students were absent 6.4 percent more days following a school closure, compared with ...
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May 12, 2020 · As Deven notes in the first part of the conversation, researchers have now examined the impact of school closures in at least half a dozen states, including Ohio, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Chicago, New York City, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. As one might expect, given the diversity in settings, the findings run the gamut from null or negative ...
