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Post-Retirement Cognitive Decline Varies by Race and Education

Summary: A new study highlights the varying rates of cognitive decline among different races and sex groups after retirement. White men showed the sharpest decline, while Black women experienced the least. Surprisingly, individuals who attended college showed a greater decline than those who didn’t. The research suggests that factors such as job opportunities and lifelong structural inequalities may play a role in cognitive aging post-retirement. Key Facts: The study found significant post-retirement cognitive decline in white adults, with white showing the steepest decline. Black women demonstrated the least cognitive decline post-retirement, according to the study. Interestingly, individuals who had attended…
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Delta throwback: BCTF new funding idea for public education

Let’s head back to June 1972 when the BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) put forward a proposal for a new policy when it comes to who pays for public education. The idea was to have financial support for public schools come from general revenues from the province. President Adam Robertson presented the proposal to the BCTF Representative Assembly that month. The proposal represented an important shift from the Federation’s long-standing policy of support for a property tax levied by a local school board. Robertson said he wanted an end to what he called a “merry-go-round” in which the provincial government blamed…
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Teachers get summers off. Teachers college students? Not at Western U

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Western University’s faculty of education is speeding up and modifying the process to become a certified teacher amid what officials are calling a critical shortage in classrooms provincewide. Published June 12, 2023 • Last updated 1 week ago • 2 minute read (Free Press file photo) Article content Western University’s faculty of education is speeding up and modifying the process to become a certified teacher amid what officials are calling a critical shortage in classrooms provincewide. Advertisements 2 This advertisement has not been loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED…
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Quebec teachers protest against Bernard Drainville’s new education bill

Teachers’ groups held a protest outside the National Assembly this morning to voice their opposition against the Quebec government’s new education bill. One of the groups, Fédération autonome de l’enseignement (FAE), says Bill 23 is disconnected from people actually working in the field. They say the proposed legislation is an attack on the autonomy of teachers and that it doesn’t actually address some of the major issues plaguing public schools for the last two decades. They want the proposed legislation withdrawn. Tabled in early May, the bill would give more power to the education minister. If passed, he would be…
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Ukrainian family reflects on their children’s first school year in the US after fleeing war

Ukrainian war refugees who began arriving in the US over a year ago are completing their first taste of the US education system with the conclusion of the academic year. More than 270,000 Ukrainians, many of them children, have been admitted into the country since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022, with many finding seats in American classrooms. Inna Novak and Liudmyla Rybak, two sisters whose husbands stayed behind to fight, were able to make it into the US last September, just in time for the school year. Their grade for their children’s experiences so far? A In an…
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Press release: UN Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms the role of technology and innovation, and education in the digital age in accelerating gender equality

At the conclusion of the negotiations, UN Women Executive Director, Sima Bahous, said: “This year’s Agreed Conclusions are game-changing and bring forward our vision of a more equal and connected world for women and girls in all their diversity. It is our job, as we leave here today, to translate them into reality. The ultimate success of these Agreed Conclusions lies beyond their finalization today, in how we will collectively take them forward. They bring us a vision of a more equal world. Let us translate them into reality for all women and girls.” CSW67 confirmed the importance of women…