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The United Kingdom is looking to Alberta’s education system to see why students here consistently earn top marks in international testing. A British multimedia company has produced a video series called Lessons from Alberta to examine why Alberta’s public education system is so successful.
Education
Retired now for several years, professor and philosopher Martin Tweedale is trying to decide whether his life would count as excellent, or admirable.
When Lisa Goulet-Mah looks back on 25 years she sees a lot of false starts as she floundered, trying to find a career that fit.
Video: Stuffed backpacks at Boyle Street
Around 100 students from George H. Luck School form a chain to deliver eight hundred backpacks filled with toques, mitts, socks and other goodies to Boyle Street Community Services Dec 13, 2010. About 60 members of the school choir sang carols at the Centre's drop-in too. Video by Bruce Edwards
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Video: Chillin' for Charity
Students and community members braved the waters during the 5th annual Chillin' for Charity Polar Bear Swim at the University of Alberta Nov. 17, 2010. They were led by the Alberta School of Business JDC West Club, and hoped to break the $100,000 mark over the 5 years of the event. Its raised $80,000 for the United Way in its first four years. Video by Rick MacWilliam
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Map: Edmonton Public Schools populations
Use this map and database to see how the population of Edmonton's public schools has changed from last year to this year.
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Map: Edmonton Catholic Schools populations
Use this map and database to see how the population of Edmonton's catholic schools has changed from last year to this year.
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Broken Pencils
Twenty years of local control hasn’t fixed First Nations education and 9,000 students risk being marginalized the rest of their lives. In this four-part series, Edmonton Journal reporter Elise Stolte asks why and finds one school that bucks the trend.
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Volunteers threw a welcome party for Adriana Onita when she arrived in Bucharest, Romania, for a two-month internship.
Hoping to tap into demand, two Edmonton Catholic schools will offer all-boys programs next September. Beginning Monday, St. James School in south Edmonton and St. Matthew School on the north side will start accepting registrations for boys entering Grades 4 and 5 who want to attend.
Alberta’s Advanced Education minister hopes to cut student textbook fees in half by setting up a provincewide online book depository next year.
The principal at Enoch First Nation’s Kitaskinaw School hopes the presence of TV cameras will encourage her teachers to step up their efforts just a little bit more.
Combine the unpredictability of excited children with a crowded gymnasium filled with camera-toting parents and the school Christmas concert can be a recipe for stress.
University of Alberta student Weiyang Liu’s work toward a light-activated treatment for prostate cancer has earned him an award for the best thesis in North America.
Two of the most generous people in Edmonton’s history gave one more parting gift Monday — a riverside home and property worth $23 million.
Alberta’s 15-year-olds ranked among the best in the world on an international test examining reading, mathematical and scientific literacy.
Two years into a Calgary family’s search for a stem-cell match for their seven-year-old son, a Sherwood Park high school is stepping up to help.
Carl Amrhein recently opened up a new area of university research: How to find $20-odd million to cover the salaries of dozens of world-class scientists about to lose their longtime grants.
Past the lab technicians hunched over test tubes and sinks, over in the far corner, hidden behind bookshelves in a small office sits Dr. Marek Michalak, a middle-aged man with a worried look.
When Doug Horner flew to New York last January, he was looking to woo U.S. companies to Alberta. The secret weapon tucked in his brief case was the province’s newly minted research strategy, a plan to open the door to new partnerships among industry, colleges and universities, health agencies and government research agencies.
The Alberta government will invest more than $19 million in school-based mental health programs over the next three years aimed at preventing mental illness among children and families.
The “wows” from the Sherwood School students started almost immediately as University of Alberta biochemistry student Amy Smith added dry ice to the garbage bag on the table in front of her.
A former Alberta education minister has launched a petition, hoping to find widespread support to end public funding of separate schools. David King said separate school systems waste taxpayer dollars and undermine Canadian multicultural values.
Edmonton Public School Board trustees have approved a two-year moratorium on school closures.
Canada’s Governor General launched into a day of visits around the Edmonton area at St. Mary Catholic Elementary School Monday morning, a school he wanted to visit after seeing its use of technology profiled in media reports earlier this year.
Edmonton Journal education reporter Sarah O’Donnell is the recipient of a 2010 President’s Award from the Alberta School Boards Association.
All the triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs a Tyrannosaurus rex ate may have gone straight to its hips. New research out of the University of Alberta conducted by graduate student Scott Persons suggests the T. rex had massive tail muscles, allowing for greater speed, balance and power than previously thought, giving the king of the Cretaceous era a butt that just wouldn’t quit.