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A COVID-19 case has been confirmed at Immaculate Conception Catholic Elementary School in Val Caron. The Sudbury Catholic District School Board said the individual who tested positive for COVID-19 is self-isolating and Public Health Sudbury and Districts is monitoring the person while the investigation continues. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. COVID case detected at Val Caron school Back to video Director of education Joanne Bénard said in a let...

Article content Two more schools in Sudbury are reporting COVID-19 cases. The Sudbury Catholic District School Board said in a letter to parents the virus has been detected at Marymount Academy and Pius XII Catholic Elementary School. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. COVID-19 detected at two more Sudbury schools Back to video Last week, COVID-19 was detected at St. David. At first, one class was suspended, then the entire school closed. Affected in...

<p><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/8726564/depression-in-teenagers1_350x219.jpg" alt="troubled teen" class="ImageFloatRight"/>A study released last month made a provocative claim: Suicide rates drop dramatically among youths when they benefit from options for schooling and from an environment that meets their emotional needs.</p>

Study: Suicide Rates Drop After School Choice Laws Adopted 21 Dec 2020 A study published December 3 has found significant declines in the suicide rate of adolescents in the wake of the enactment of laws that allow school choice. Published at the journal School Effectiveness and School Improvement, the study’s authors, the Cato Institute’s Corey DeAngelis and economist Angela Dills, noted their work is the first to link school choice to mental health outcomes. Using two empirical strategies...

End of term school exams are “out of date” and should be replaced with a system that could allow pupils to sit and resit them throughout the year like driving tests, according to government advisers. Nicola Sturgeons International Council of Education Advisers (ICEA) argues in a major new report that the traditional diet of make-or-break tests could be reformed in favour of a "greater role for internal assessment in determining qualifications that better match the knowledge and ski...