Charting the Successes of Canada's School System

As per Dr. Joel Westheimer's talk:

Expectations Met	Hasn’t Met
not taught about just one vision of truth	attention to local people and context
Most citizens are being educated in demorcy country	schooling as more than job training
In our schools were taught about where we live a democracy but also informed of other types of power. We have more than one perspective being presented	being taught how to be a critical thinker (somewhat met?)
The “normal” education system that students faced( lack of creativity)	Still mostly a vision that is eurocentric
We accept people’s differing perspectives and opinions	accurate standardization (very narrow curriculum)
our curriculum includes more than strictly math & literacy	He talked about the one perspective, but we are assessed by one method and one perspective in school.
Professional citizen education( respect to others, review what you had learned,etc)	Deprofessionalization => standardize for basic skills
	Standardized the curriculum
teaching us to engage as a citizenship at a participatory & personal responsibility level	teachers not being respected professionally; too much demand on testing
arm chair activists	Obsession with measurements => but Grade ‘inflation’ in some schools => how do we know these tests are accurate
	start to only care about skills we can measure
	Be creative and obsessed into the critical thinking
	Involve more focus on arts
	Provide food for students/gum chewing
	teaching us to be social justice oriented citizens
	Few programs that address social justice issues => root causes of problems => only study movements
	A study of a link between a nation’s economy and how students do well
	connect what you learn in school to the outside world