Club Malibu: Young Life’s luxurious Christian camp
Club Malibu: God is groovy Vancouver Sun ARCHIVES {* I’m reposting this old feature as background to this weekend’s feature story by Sun education reporter Janet Steffenhagen. She writes about the...
View ArticleStudent Video Contest: Animation – Time Lapse – Gleneagle secondary school
Animation video entry from Travis Anderson, Gleneagle secondary, Coquitlam. Title: Time Lapse Description: A “gentleman” travels through time searching for his sick wife in order to bring her the...
View ArticleWalking school buses to gain traction in Metro Vancouver
Walking or biking to school didn’t used to require an organizational team, but it’s come to that in urban North America and Vancouver’s getting on board this fall. The city recently joined New...
View ArticleHyper-vigilance about abuse can hurt children – and everyone
I recently walked by a red-brick Vancouver elementary school at recess time. About 20 young children were meandering around the playground. The youngsters were being supervised by seven adults. They...
View ArticleChildren today are over-protected – Letters
Here are four revealing and helpful letters I received in response to the Saturday column, Hyper-vigilance about abuse can hurt children – and everyone. Among other things, the column looked at the...
View ArticleWhy school lunches are such an emotionally charged issue
News that a Toronto school has banned junk food from students’ lunches made me wonder how teacher felt about being the food police. I know that teachers notice what their students bring to eat, or if...
View ArticleLice? They’re everywhere, but let’s not talk about it
I had the mixed pleasure of doing a story on head lice this week. Mixed because there was The good: Who doesn’t like a story about bugs that feed on human blood? And The bad: Who would like to talk to...
View ArticleB.C. class sizes: How does your kid’s school compare?
As B.C. teachers announce plans for a full-scale walkout beginning on Monday, June 16, one of the big issues on the table is class size and composition. Which might make you wonder: What are class...
View Article数据新闻! Vancouver Sun’s data journalism now available in Chinese!
Yesterday, I published an interactive chart on this blog that let readers see how class sizes at their kid’s school compare to the B.C. average. Today, that same chart is available on Taiyangbao.ca,...
View ArticleSee how many ESL and special needs students are in your kid’s school
In case you missed it, we had a story in Monday’s paper looking at how rates of ESL and special-needs students vary widely from district to district and school to school in B.C. It was accompanied by...
View ArticleGet the raw data on ESL and special needs students in B.C.
Our story and interactive chart on ESL and special needs kids in B.C. schools got a lot of attention over the past few days, receiving more than 800 shares on Facebook and more than 15,000 pageviews....
View ArticleESL majority at 60 Vancouver schools will do well: Study
Sun colleague Chad Skelton had an exclusive report this week, which showed that more than 60 Metro Vancouver schools have a majority of English-as-a-second-language students. Skelton provided an...
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