Advocacy group calls for end to ‘streaming’ in Ontario high schools

Two-tiered education?

Students who take even a few applied courses are much less likely to graduate from high school than those in academic ones — and enrolling in applied math in Grade 9 means there’s almost no chance a teen will go to university, says a startling new report from an education advocacy group.

People for Education is demanding the Ontario government merge the two types of classes for at least the freshman year.

The group says the system, intended to put an end to “streaming” high school students when it was implemented in 1999, has instead perpetuated all of its problems — and again put low-income students at a disadvantage given they are more likely to be in the more practical, hands-on applied classes.  (more...)

Advocacy group calls for end to ‘streaming’ in Ontario high schools

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