[Cross-posted from Richmond Hill High School Alumni Association blog found here.]
What follows is a story I have told only to a few of my closest friends (and probably not in its entirety), because of its complexity, personal nature, and my own confusion. It’s taken me a long time to formulate this into a coherent message [...]
CUPE3903, “representing” graduate students, part-time faculty, and teaching assistants at York University and their three-month long strike charade is about to come to an end. After a government appointed negotiator finally told us what we all knew already – that the two sides are irreconcilable – Premier McGuinty finally decided to start the motions of [...]
Some time in 2005, the Ministry of Education of Ontario decided they would evaluate the mathematics portion of Ontario’s secondary school curriculum. Their first study led them to announce that they would remove the calculus course from the curriculum, replacing “Advanced Functions and Introductory Calculus” to “Advanced Functions”, along with some slight adjustments to both [...]
(Ed note: This post receives a lot of Google hits. For those stumbling upon this post, I also recommend this one, which is more in-depth and updated.)
Yesterday, amidst a rather empty convocation hall, I attended the Engineering Science overture lecture for the 2007 Winter Term, themed “Systems and States”. Giving the lecture was one Professor [...]