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Paul W. Bennett

By Paul W. Bennett

Paul W.  Bennett, Ed.D., is Director, Schoolhouse Institute, Adjunct Professor of Education, Saint Mary’s University, and National Coordinator of researchED in Canada. His latest book is The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada’s Schools (2020).

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A parent reads closure notices on the front door of Thorncliffe Park Public School in Toronto on Friday December 4, 2020. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press.
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Are pandemic effects and progressive discipline policies turning classrooms violent?

Progressive student behaviour approaches are now unequal to the challenge, according to classroom teachers and engaged parents. Violent, disruptive, and disrespectful students are free, in far too many schools, to erode learning and sustain the turmoil with impunity.

Paul W. Bennett - Posted on December 5, 2022
The creator of the "Bimbo Manifesto," Fiona Fairbairn, 19, poses for a portrait at her home in Thornhill, Ont., Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. "I'm sick of perceiving. I'm sick of being observational. I'm sick of being self-aware," Fairbairn told her 8,000 TikTok followers on Dec. 23. "Just let me be dumb, because people with no critical thinking skills be happy as hell." Chris Young/The Canadian Press.
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'TikTok Brain' is killing students' ability to learn

As cellphones, screens, and endless online and cyber engagement immerse students in distractions, teachers are now facing an uphill battle to reclaim the attention of the pandemic generation.

Paul W. Bennett - Posted on September 19, 2022
George Lewis, second from right, 5, rides a stationary bike during a lesson in teacher Mary Theresa Burt's classroom at Ian Forsyth Elementary School in Dartmouth, N.S. on Monday, March 7, 2016. Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press.
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Restorative justice is turning Canada's classrooms into group therapy sessions

Restorative justice has gained fresh currency in Canada’s schools even though its experimental approach to student discipline is unfounded in the classroom context.

Paul W. Bennett - Posted on June 15, 2022
Canadian luge team member Sam Edney, from Calgary, Alta., reads a new children's book about luge to grade one students at Olympia Heights School in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press.
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Ontario's approach to early reading is failing its students

The Ontario Human Rights Commission ruled that children had “the right to read” and were being denied it in that province’s schools. Most “learning disabilities” labels were actually the result of reading failures, the latest OHRC inquiry found.

Paul W. Bennett - Posted on April 22, 2022
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce waits in a classroom before making an announcement for the government of Ontario, at St. Robert Catholic High School in Toronto on Aug. 4, 2021. Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press.
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After COVID-19, Canada's K-12 education is now a recovery mission

Repeated pivots to emergency home learning were detrimental to school age children and families, and education was used as a “pandemic control” instrument without sufficient recognition of the academic and social impacts on children and teens.

Paul W. Bennett - Posted on March 2, 2022
Parents pick up their children as they are dismissed from Dixie Public School in Mississauga on Nov. 22, 2021. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press.
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The 'big shift' is coming for pandemic schooling

Leading global think tanks were the first to confront “the new normal” and it’s now being embraced by those once thought least likely to change their scripts: Canada’s provincial public health officers.

Paul W. Bennett - Posted on January 12, 2022
A classroom is seen in the former New Westminster Secondary School, which was built on a cemetery in the 1940s and is now shuttered after a new school was built nearby, in New Westminster, B.C., on Thursday, October 14, 2021. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press.
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Why education policy is failing us in COVID-19 Times

The idea that prioritizing academic achievement is at odds with student well-being is not defensible.

Paul W. Bennett - Posted on October 28, 2021
A man sanitizes tabletop surfaces in a kindergarten classroom at Hunter's Glen Junior Public School which is part of the Toronto District School Board. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press.
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Paul W. Bennett: Time to kill the ‘zombie idea’ that learning loss doesn’t matter

Zombie ideas beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die.

Paul W. Bennett - Posted on October 6, 2021
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