This paper provides a descriptive account of the growing landscape of school choice in Canada through a comparative analysis of funding and student enrolment in the public, independent and home-based education sectors in each province. Given that the provinces have responsibility for Education Policy Analysis Archives Vol. 25 No. 38 SPECIAL ISSUE 2 K-12 education, the mixture of public, independent and home school education varies rather widely by province, as does the level of funding and regulation. Delivery and funding of public education in Canada has long prioritized limited linguistic and religious pluralism, providing various options for English or French, and Catholic or Protestant alternatives to qualified parents. More recently growing numbers of parents have been seeking more options for their children's education. This has fueled slow but steady growth in independent schools and home schooling. Keywords: school choice; Canada; student enrolment; funding; independent schools; home-based education; home schooling El panorama cambiante de la opción escolar en Canadá: ¿Del pluralismo a la preferencia de los padres? Resumen: Este artículo proporciona una descripción del escenario de la elección de las escuelas en Canadá, a través de una evaluación comparativa de la financiación y de la matrícula de los estudiantes K-12, una mezcla de educación pública, independiente y doméstica, es muy importante para la población, como el nivel de financiación y la regulación. A distribuir y financiar la educación pública en Canadá con prioridad en el pluralismo limitado lingüístico y religioso, ofrecer diversas opciones para el inglés o el francés y las alternativas católicas o protestantes a los paisificados. Más recientemente, un número cada vez mayor de los países buscado más opciones para una educación de sus hijos. Esto ha impulsado el crecimiento lento pero constante en las escuelas independientes y la educación en casa. Palavras-chave: opción escolar; Canadá; matrícula de alumnos; financiamento; escuelas independentes; educación doméstica; educación escolar en casa A paisagem em mudança de escolha da escola no Canadá: O pluralismo a preferência parental? Resumo: Este artigo fornece uma descrição descritiva do cenário crescente da escolha de escolas no Canadá através de uma análise comparativa do financiamento e da matrícula de estudantes nos setores de educação pública, independente e domiciliar em cada província. Dado que as províncias têm a responsabilidade pela educação K-12, a mistura de educação pública, independente e home escolar varia muito amplamente por província, assim como o nível de financiamento e regulação. A distribuição e o financiamento da educação pública no Canadá tem priorizado muito o limitado pluralismo linguístico e religioso, oferecendo várias opções para o inglês ou o francês e alternativas católicas ou protestantes aos pais qualificados. Mais recentemente, um número cada vez maior de pais tem buscado mais opções para a educação de seus filhos. Isto tem alimentado o cresciment...
Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to provide a descriptive account of the policy and provisions for homeschooling in Canada. Drawing upon existing research, the paper begins by situating homeschooling within the larger educational landscape of Canadian public education, and examines the evolution of homeschooling in this context. The paper highlights the shifting motivation of parents to homeschool during different periods and reviews some of the tension related to this form of schooling. The next section provides a comparative view of the regulatory framework, funding and support for homeschooling in each province, student enrolment figures, student performance outcomes and fiscal efficiencies for Canadian tax-payers. The paper concludes with a discussion of lessons learned from the Canadian experience of homeschooling that informs implications for policy makers in other contexts.
The rapid growth of the computer industry has created an increasing demand for technical writers who can address the specialized problems of computer documentation. Since information science is still a very young discipline, university and college writing programs have only begun to identify the needs of this new industry and develop courses that satisfy those needs. Two interrelated factors have severely aggravated the problem. First, writing for computer systems places the writer in a rigorously specialized context as different from writing for business, law, or medicine as those disciplines are from each other. Since most computer documentation instructs readers on how to use a specific system or set of procedures to perform a specialized task, writing instruction manuals and other supporting documentation for computers must be sharply distinguished from the more traditional forms of business writing, technical report writing, and scholarly journal articles written for publication. The second factor hindering the development of new courses in this area involves the rapid advance of computer technology itself: a bewildering array of new devices and systems appear every week, training documents and reference manuals are often outdated before they are even completed, and the increased complexity of the new technology frequently requires addressing several different audiences, each possessing a widely varying level of technical knowledge. These problems require specialized teaching approaches to create a situational context resembling that of the working world. Students need large conceptual guidelines for addressing different groups of readers, yet the learning environment must remain flexible enought to adapt to rapid technological change and multiple levels of specific information needs. This article describes a course developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz which addresses these problems.
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