BCTF Information Services—Research & Reports

Aboriginal Education

• Special Issue on Indigenous Education (2013), Canadian Journal of Education, 36(2).
• Statistics Canada. (2013). The educational attainment of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. National Household Survey, 2011. 

Academic Achievement

• Chicago Teachers Union & Stand Up! Chicago. (2012). Fight for the future: How low wages are failing children in Chicago's schools.
• Coley, R.J., & Baker, B. (2013). Poverty and education: Finding the way forward. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.
• Jerrim, J. (2013). The reading gap: The socio-economic gap in children's reading skills: A cross-national comparison using PISA 2009. London: The Sutton Trust.

Arts Education

• Peppler, K. (2013). New opportunities for interest-driven arts learning in a digital age. New York: The Wallace Foundation.

Charter Schools

• Maul, A., & McClelland, A. (2013). Review of National Charter School Study 2013. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center.

Cyberbullying

• CCSO Cybercrime Working Group. (2013). Report to the federal/provincial/territorial ministers responsible for justice and public safety. Cyberbullying and the non-consensual distribution of intimate images. Government of Canada, Department of Justice.
• Englander, E. (2012). Cyberbullying among 11,700 elementary school students, 2010-2012. In MARC Research Reports. Paper 4.

Dropout/Graduation Rates

• West, T.C. (2013). Just the right mix: Identifying potential dropouts in Montgomery County Public Schools using an early warning indicators approach. Montgomery County Public Schools Office of Shared Accountability, Rockville, MD.

Education - Canada

• Statistics Canada. (2013). Education in Canada: Attainment, field of study and location of study. National Household Survey, 2011.

Education - Social & Economic Returns

• VanDamme, D. (2013, June 25). Education: The best protection against an economic crisis. OECD Education Today.

Educational Change

• Couture, J.-C. (2013). Competencies: Promises and pitfalls. ATA Magazine, 93(4).

Educational Indicators - International

• OECD. (2013). Education at a glance 2013: OECD indicators. OECD Publishing.

Educational Leadership

• Curtis, R. (2013). Finding a new way: Leveraging teacher leadership to meet unprecedented demands. Washington, D.C.: The Aspen Institute.

First Nations

• OSSTF. (2012). Full circle: First Nations, Metis, Inuit ways of knowing. A Common Threads resource.

Poverty

• Canadian Medical Association. (2013). Health care in Canada: What makes us sick? 

Poverty and Children

• The Annie E. Casey Foundation. (2013). Kids Count data book: State trends in child well-being.

Privatization - General - Education

• Fischer, B. (2013, July 16). Cashing in on kids: 139 ALEC bills in 2013 promote a private, for-profit education model. The Center for Media and Democracy's PRWatch.

Professional Development

• Fishman, B., et al. (2013). Comparing the impact of online and face-to-face professional development in the context of curriculum implementation. Journal of Teacher Education. OnlineFirst 5 July 2013.

Public Education Advocacy

• Langley, B. (2013, July 19). Five basic lessons on public education (short and long versions). Washington Post Answer Sheet blog.

Reading Ability/Disability

• NCLE. (2013). Remodeling literacy learning: Making room for what works. National Center for Literacy Education.

Teacher Certification

• Davis, O. (2013, August 2). Teach for America apostates: A primer of alumni resistance. Truthout.

Teacher Education

• Niess, M., & Gillow-Wiles, H. (2013). Developing asynchronous online courses: Key instructional strategies in a social metacognitive constructivist learning trajectory. The Journal of Distance Education, 27(1).

Teacher Evaluation/Dismissal

• Jones, N.D., Buzick, H.M., & Turkan, S. (2013). Including students with disabilities and English learners in measures of teacher effectiveness. Educational Researcher, 42(4): 234-241.
• OECD. (2013). Teachers for the 21st century: Using evaluation to improve teaching. OECD Publishing.

Teaching as a Profession

• Bangs, J., & Frost, D. (2012). Teacher self-efficacy, voice and leadership: Towards a policy framework for Education International. Education International Research Institute.

Testing - Canada

• Bower, J. (2013). Telling time with a broken clock: The trouble with standardized testing. Education Canada.

Testing - U.S.

• Darling-Hammond, L., & Adamson, F. (2013). Developing assessments of deeper learning: The costs and benefits of using tests that help students learn. Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.
• Nelson, H. (2013). Testing more, teaching less: What America's obsession with student testing costs in money and lost instructional time. American Federation of Teachers.

Unions

• Green, E. (2013, July 24). Are shrinking unions making workers poorer? The Atlantic.
• Lafer, G. (2011, Sept. 15). 'Right to work': The wrong answer for Michigan's economy. Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper #326.
• Plumer, B. (2012, Dec. 10). What do 'right-to-work' laws do to a state's economy? The Washington Post.