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.”
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 […]
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 ban suspensions for children in Grade 3 and below in efforts to rid education system of racism
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 York University's Faculty of Education found that Black teens […]
Mark Okello Oyat and four of his fellow students at the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya are waiting for the pandemic to wind down before celebrating their new master’s degrees in style, but the thrill is still present among the members of the first cohort of Dadaab students to earn York University graduate degrees, which were awarded this past June.
On June 19, three education experts — York University 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.”
Tina Rapke, an Assistant Professor York University'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 ... […]
Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, an Assistant Professor of early childhood in the Faculty of Education, is providing a few tips for parents to help their children transition back to daycare.
Eight emerging and four established researchers across the University will join the York Research Chairs (YRC) program, York University’s internal counterpart to the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, which recognizes outstanding researchers. Two of these appointments are renewals.