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		<title>A harder case to make for boys&#8217; school in the TDSB</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Dyson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Toronto District School Board Director Chris Spence is showing himself fearless in the face of controversy. But he&#8217;s got a hard case to make if he is going to convince Torontonians that a boys&#8217; school is a good way to address underachievement.
As part of the his move to open the discussion, Dr. Leonard Sax, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingstrongcommunities.wordpress.com&blog=4923567&post=1373&subd=buildingstrongcommunities&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bed Bugs: A call for action in Toronto</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reports are in: bed bugs aren&#8217;t just found in nursery rhymes.
In case you missed the media hyperbole a few weeks ago, it was stunning. The National Post led with the story of the spread of bed bugs on transit vehicles and other public spaces. CBC&#8217;s The National covered the release of the two reports, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingstrongcommunities.wordpress.com&blog=4923567&post=1342&subd=buildingstrongcommunities&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An opportunity gap &#8211; not an achievement gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Dyson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OISE&#8217;s Centre for Urban Schooling packed them in for a lecture tonight by Linda Nathan called Grappling with the Hardest Questions: Why Must Schools Talk Openly About Race and Achievement and What Happens When They Do.
Nathan is co-headmaster of Boston&#8217;s Arts Academy (BAA), a small public high school located across from Fenway Park, where kids [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingstrongcommunities.wordpress.com&blog=4923567&post=1326&subd=buildingstrongcommunities&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed picture on mixed income: Moving in on poor neighbourhoods</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Dyson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early one morning this week, I drove a neighbour (and, of course, friend) to a downtown hospital for a medical test.
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		<title>&#8220;Are there limits to gentrification? Evidence from Vancouver&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Dyson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gentrification is fifty years old this year, UBC professor and Canada Research Chair in Geography David Ley explained to a University of Toronto audience earlier this week. Or at least the word &#8220;gentrification&#8221; is.
Although attributed to sociologist Ruth Glass first in 1964, the term can be found in an unpublished paper of hers five years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=buildingstrongcommunities.wordpress.com&blog=4923567&post=1282&subd=buildingstrongcommunities&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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