An activist who has made education reform a top of the mind topic among governments and in households across Canada, Ms. Robertson is this country’s most compelling speaker on the major issues facing educators – and parents – today.
Ms. Robertson is co-author of the best-selling Class Warfare: The Assault on Canada’s Schools. Her recently published No More Teachers, No More Books, The Commercialization of Canada’s Schools sharpened the debate and raised new questions about what schools are for. Should schools partner with today’s mega corporations? Will technology really turn our kids into lifelong learners?
In her inspiring presentation, Ms. Robertson makes sense of the chaotic
world of education reforms and how they are shaped by social, economic
and political environments. She explains how the problems our schools
face won’t be solved by slashing budgets, standardized testing or blaming
teachers. Education is being stalked by the forces of globalization
and caught up in the business of sorting the winners from the losers.
This should matter to all of us because theschools of today will shape
the society of tomorrow.
| Audiences will hear:
· Why the elites have "manufactured criticism" about public education · How business partnerships compromise educational objectives · Why education reform is always political reform · How marketers target kids and classrooms · How the Techno-corps have manipulated your kids and stolen your tax dollars |
Whatever her topic, Ms. Robertson is never less than impassioned, provocative and most often – just plain right. She is the human flashpoint for education reform today, someone whose articulate views are the platform for almost every discussion on the subject.
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