Ontario Math

• EQAO results: Ontario students’ math and literacy scores flat or up slightly

  The Education Quality and Accountability Office has released its annual standardized test results.

  Education

  Sep 28, 2023
  
• Teachers’ unions urged to take arbitration route to avoid strike: Ontario education minister

  Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce is urging three teachers' unions to agree to a deal that avoids a strike.

  Canada

  Aug 28, 2023
  
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• Underused Ontario schools could be sold by Ford government for housing in new education bill

  The new bill, called the Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, includes sweeping new measures aimed at standardizing the education system to align with "provincial priorities."

  Education

  Apr 17, 2023
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• EXCLUSIVE: Majority of Ontario’s Grade 6 students failed provincial standardized math test

  Ontario EQAO scores from the 2021-22 academic year obtained by Global News show progress has stalled on improving mathematic skills for students in the province.

  Education

  Oct 19, 2022
• Ford defends removing anti-racism text from math curriculum

  He says those issues should be talked about in history and social studies.

  Education

  Jul 15, 2021
• Ontario government ends Grade 9 math streams, adds coding and financial literacy to curriculum

  The most noticeable change is that Grade 9 math will no longer be split into academic and applied streams. Instead, there will be a single math course for all Grade 9 students.

  Education

  Jun 9, 2021
• Ontario government effort to scrap streaming begins with math courses in 2021, Lecce says

  Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the province's math curriculum will be the first to be de-streamed as of September 2021.

  Education

  Jul 9, 2020
• Ontario government unveils new elementary math curriculum

  Ontario is unveiling a new elementary math curriculum today, including learning to code and expanded learning on financial literacy.

  Education

  Jun 23, 2020
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• Standardized tests for Ontario teachers doesn’t necessarily improve student scores: report

  The EQAO literature review found that while many studies show a positive correlation between teachers' scores and student outcomes, it is only weakly to moderately predictive of student performance.

  Education

  Aug 30, 2019
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• Ontario announces revamped sex-ed curriculum, increase in class sizes for high school

  The province has released the broad lines of the new sex-ed curriculum in an announcement that also lays out its plans for other aspects of the education sector, including class sizes and teacher hiring.

  Politics

  Mar 15, 2019