In Toronto, a shrinking number of young job seekers are finding work, diminishing the odds they’ll see more gainful employment down the road. “The longer you don’t work the harder you are to hire,” says one expert. Continue reading
Rates of Toronto students reporting they are helped by private tutors have grown by 60% over the last five years, Toronto school board data shows. 8% of students in grades 7 and 8 reported a private tutor in 2011, as opposed to 5% in 2006. Tutoring rates for high school students rose from 7% to 11% in the same period. Continue reading
In 93 out of 115 Toronto high schools, students said they felt safer in the community than in the outdoor spaces of their own schools Continue reading
Cyberbullying has been everywhere in the news for the most wrenching of reasons. But Toronto teens say they’re still more likely to get teased, taunted or gossiped about in real life than bullied online. Continue reading
This exclusive dissection of survey responses from tens of thousands of Toronto students began nine months ago, when Global News requested school-by-school results from the student census in July of last year, using access-to-information laws. That data was eventually delivered, as a set of 318 .pdf files, in February of this year. They shed unique insights into students’ fears of violence, experience of bullying, private tuition (up, a lot) and part-time employment (down, a lot). Read the series Continue reading