Art Gallery of Ontario invites community to help honour over 5,000 child victims five years after deadly Sichuan earthquake

Art Gallery of OntarioAGO seeks volunteers to read the names of children commemorated in artist/activist Ai Weiwei’s works
 
TORONTO — The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will honour the youngest victims of the devastating 2008 earthquake in China’s Sichuan province by holding a live tribute on the opening weekend of its summer exhibition Ai Weiwei: According to What? The Gallery invites community members who can read Chinese and speak any Chinese dialect to participate in a live version of Ai Weiwei’s voice recording Remembrance (2010), which names the thousands of schoolchildren who perished in the disaster on May 12, 2008.

Ontario Students Relieved Schools Back to Normal

OTTAWA, Feb. 22, 2013 /CNW/ - Today, to the delight of hundreds of thousands of Ontario secondary students, the Ontario Secondary Schools' Teachers' Federation voted in favour of ending the six month withdrawal of extra-curricular activities.

Merit-based pay for teachers will not lead to better quality education

For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simple and wrong

By Ben Levin, Troy Media

TORONTO, ON - Evidence routinely demonstrates that strong education systems help build better health and social cohesion. To achieve strong school systems, one of the truisms of education now widely cited around the world is the critical importance of teachers. “The quality of a system,” an influential McKinsey report noted a few years ago, “cannot exceed the quality of the people in it.”

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