A screengrab of the map showing Grade 3 reading test results in Toronto. The full interactive version is available here. Every year, the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO), an independent agency funded by the Ontario government, conducts province-wide tests of elementary and high school students to assess how well those students are handling the [...]

Detail of cover of Trevor Norris’s new book. “How can the education system maintain its democratic function in the face of commercial forces?” Over the past few months, this quandary has been debated all across the province—from the legislature at Queen’s Park to high school faculty lounges. OISE professor Trevor Norris explores the larger dimensions [...]

Illustration by Kyra Kendall/Torontoist. Yesterday brought some good news for Mac users. And, believe it or not, it had nothing to do with pads, or tablets, or whatever. Last week we wrote about a brewing dispute at the Toronto District School Board over the future of Mac computers in school computer labs. Lee Stem, general [...]

Photo by Claude Estèbe. Subway six-inch Cold Cut Combo: $3.29, 460 calories; Pizza Hut 1/2 Pepperoni P-Zone: $4.50, 710 calories; Swiss Chalet Garlic Cheese Loaf: $7.99, 860 calories. With numbers laid out like these, it’s hard to tell if you’re paying with your wallet or your weight. But if the Ontario Medical Association has its [...]

The Democratic party officially nominated Barack Obama as their candidate last night, which is news in the way that New Year’s Day is news, except that at the Democratic National Convention nobody was visibly hung over or wondering what, exactly, they did with their underwear and where it went. Well, actually Bill Clinton was there, [...]