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Education commentator, consultant and author. Specialist in decoding edubabble.

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Paul W. Bennett, Ed.D., is Director of Schoolhouse Institute, Halifax, NS, Adjunct Professor of Education, Saint Mary's University, and Education columnist for Brunswick News. His latest book is The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada's Schools (2020).

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Opinion: Canada's bureaucratic school system needs a top-to-bottom overhaul

Opinion: Canada's bureaucratic school system needs a top-to-bottom overhaul

Paul W. Bennett is the director of Schoolhouse Institute. This piece is adapted from his book The State of th…

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BENNETT: Homeschooling is growing and deserves more attention | TJ.news

BENNETT: Homeschooling is growing and deserves more attention | TJ.news

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Paul W. Bennett: Why education policy is failing us in COVID-19 Times - The Hub

Paul W. Bennett: Why education policy is failing us in COVID-19 Times - The Hub

Twenty years ago, former Ontario Institute for Studies in Education dean and Ontario education deputy ministe…

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Will the pandemic help shift the education system back to teaching?

Will the pandemic help shift the education system back to teaching?

"Learnification," a move that has devalued teaching and shifted focus to learning, has hurt our students. May…

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Shore Up the Foundations for Future-Proof Education | EdCan Network

Shore Up the Foundations for Future-Proof Education | EdCan Network

Equity, Policy, Promising Practices COVID-19 shook up our ingrained ways of "doing education" and has pushed …

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PAUL W. BENNETT: Why a culture of complaint flourishes in Nova Scotia's public school system | Sa...

PAUL W. BENNETT: Why a culture of complaint flourishes in Nova Scotia's public school system | Sa...

Nova Scotia >Opinion Schools are in chaos. Desks are too close together. Yellow buses are arriving late. Air …

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Children and Screens: Will the Techlash revive Books in Canadian Schools ?* 

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Schools across Canada have invested billions in educational technology over the past 15 years, transforming the K–12 classroom in ways few could have anticipated. Paper has largely disappeared, and traditional textbooks have been pushed to the margins or replaced entirely by digital platforms. In their place, screen-based modes such as laptops, tablets, and mobile devices now dominate daily teaching and learning. Yet, for the first time, a broad-based disenchantment with edtech is taking hold.
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The Plight of Children in Care: Why is Nova Scotia’s Child Welfare System Broken and How Can It be Repaired?* 

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| wordpress.com
Canada’s child-welfare system deserves more careful scrutiny. Over the past six months that was driven home for me during a national investigation into what’s termed “The Broken System” conducted in collaboration with Ontario researcher Elizabeth Lance. Our forthcoming study covers all provinces and territories, and one of the provincial case studies illustrated the problem in spades. My recent probe into the state of child and youth welfare in Nova Scotia is a case-in-point.
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Paul W. Bennett: The plight of children in care in Nova Scotia

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| The Chronicle Herald Verified
The warning signals were not heeded, and the consequences are now visible. Fewer foster families, more complex needs among children entering care, shortages of appropriate residential placements and a depleted network of community supports have pushed the Opportunities and Social Development Department toward increasingly improvised solutions. Instead of strengthening families before they reach crisis, government is spending millions putting out fires affecting children and families.
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