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International Day of Education
Leading up to Inclusive Education Month
January 24, 2025 is the International Day of Education, and February is Inclusive Education Month in Canada. As usual, I’ve had a lot to say about education and inclusion this past year.
Most recently, I wrote about a news story reporting that Manitoba Education is “lowering” its standards for new teachers. Certain credits will no longer be mandatory for teachers to graduate with a B.Ed. in MB, a province which has consistently scored the worst in math and reading on standardized tests in Canada.
Manitoba Education is reducing the credit requirements for new teachers graduating from Bachelor of Education programs… but does that really matter?
What is it they don’t want us to see and discuss?
However, uproar over whether a teacher has taken x number of credit hours in math tend to serve as a distraction from greater, underlying issues across our public education system.
