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Meet a Grad Student: Diana Karolina Grimaldos

This month’s graduate student profile features Diana Karolia Grimaldos, a part-time graduate student in the Master of Leadership and Community Engagement Program (MLCE). Grimaldos’ research interest lies in the intersection of community engagement and equity in education. “I pursue this area of research because of my direct experience with the non-for-profit sector, which led me to work with racialized parents who have experienced racism and discrimination within the education system,” she says.

The Conversation: Ending ‘streaming’ is only the first step to dismantling systemic racism in Ontario schools

Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, Carl James, recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Conversation Canada about the Ontario Government's recent announcement to end streaming in Grade 9. "Last week, the Ontario government announced its plan to end streaming in Grade 9, something Education Minister Stephen Lecce acknowledged is a […]

IN THE MEDIA: Ontario made the right call on streaming. A student’s future should not be decided in Grade 9

This week, the Government of Ontario announced that it would end streaming in Grade 9. Research by Carl James, �첥��Ƶ Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, is not alone in showing that Black Canadians and especially historic Black Canadians (compared with those from the families of recent immigrants) are far more […]

IN THE MEDIA: Ontario to ban suspensions for children in Grade 3 and below in efforts to rid education system of racism

Ontario will stop suspending children from junior kindergarten to Grade 3, a practice that has been shown to disproportionately impact Black students. A 2017 study by Carl James, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community, and Diaspora at �첥��Ƶ's Faculty of Education, reported Black students were more than twice as likely as other racialized […]

IN THE MEDIA: Ending Academic Streaming in Schools

Faculty of Education Professor Carl James led research on streaming back in 2017 and found it disproportionately affected Black students. “The ways in which teachers perceive Black students’ abilities in the context of systemic racism means that we have assumptions about the potential of Black students.”

IN THE MEDIA: Ontario Government ending streaming in Grade 9

The Ontario government has announced academic streaming in Grade 9 will be ending. A 2017 study led by Carl James, Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, found that Black students were being streamed into the applied stream at significantly higher rates than other students. "Black students were not seen as having the capacity […]

Aparna Mishra Tarc interviewed by Black Agenda Report about her book "Literacy of the Other"

Associate Professor and Graduate Program in Education Director Aparna Mishra-Tarc was recently interviewed by Black Agenda Report (BAR) about her book "Literacy of the Other: Renarrating Humanity".

IN THE MEDIA: Ontario to end 'discriminatory' practice of academic streaming in Grade 9

After years of calls from some educators and advocacy groups to end the practice, the Ontario government says it will do away with academic streaming in Grade 9. A 2017 report led by Carl James, Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora at �첥��Ƶ's Faculty of Education found that Black teens […]

Brown Complicity in White Supremacy

On June 19, three education experts — �첥��Ƶ assistant professor Vidya Shah, former Toronto school board education superintendent Jeewan Chanicka and Herveen Singh, an assistant professor at Dubai’s Zayed University — spoke in a brutally frank session titled “Brown Complicity in White Supremacy.”

IN THE MEDIA: Professor thrilled with new math, but wonders what it will look like in classroom

Tina Rapke, an Assistant Professor �첥��Ƶ's Faculty of Education, is thrilled to see that curriculum reforms focus on “mental math” and that there is a mention of the “emotional” aspect -- the anxiety students can experience. “I'm very happy to see the focus on mental math,” says Rapke.“We have research that has recommendations ... […]