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Don Rutledge, director of Toronto Board of Education's language centre, reads poetry to Grade 2 students
Don Rutledge, director of Toronto Board of Education's language centre, reads poetry to Grade 2 students

Don Rutledge, director of Toronto Board of Education's language centre, reads poetry to Grade 2 students

Date5/2/1973
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Discussed by Donald Rutledge, right, director of curriculum development for the Toronto Board of Education
Discussed by Donald Rutledge, right, director of curriculum development for the Toronto Board of Education
4/30/1973
Well done: Stanley Strickland, 20, at Mimico Correctional Centre is the first graduate of the Etobicoke Board of Education's inmate program
Well done: Stanley Strickland, 20, at Mimico Correctional Centre is the first graduate of the Etobicoke Board of Education's inmate program
9/13/1990
No! Says Tim Rutledge, a board of education trustee, Why would anyone want to make French a compulsory subject in high school?
No! Says Tim Rutledge, a board of education trustee, Why would anyone want to make French a compulsory subject in high school?
4/21/1978
His 31 years with the North York Board of Education give teacher Walker Dear (middle) the second-longest service record of high school teachers in the borough. Technical director at Downsview Secondary School since 1962, he retires June 30. With him are two of his former students who now are teachers at the school. Gordon Brown (left) and Stan Tsoki as they recall some of the years.
His 31 years with the North York Board of Education give teacher Walker Dear (middle) the second-longest service record of high school teachers in the borough. Technical director at Downsview Secondary School since 1962, he retires June 30. With him are two of his former students who now are teachers at the school. Gordon Brown (left) and Stan Tsoki as they recall some of the years.
5/16/1978
Amid boos of the crowd, and watched quizzically from left by Transport Minister Paul Hellyer, University of Toronto student Robert Fairley reads a blistering denunciation of the Liberal government and Hellyer's 'complicity' in Viet Nam war during last nig
Amid boos of the crowd, and watched quizzically from left by Transport Minister Paul Hellyer, University of Toronto student Robert Fairley reads a blistering denunciation of the Liberal government and Hellyer's 'complicity' in Viet Nam war during last nig
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Paper flood: Director of Ontario's student awards program, Bill Clarkson, above, sifts through a mountain of applications from students seeking financial assistance with their post-secondary education.
Paper flood: Director of Ontario's student awards program, Bill Clarkson, above, sifts through a mountain of applications from students seeking financial assistance with their post-secondary education.
8/25/1982
Paper flood: Director orf Ontario's student awards program, Bill Clarkson, above, sifts through a mountain of applications from students seeking financial assistance with their post-secondary education. Philip Lam talks with personal loans manager Murray Dowey, right, at the Bank of Montreal.
Paper flood: Director orf Ontario's student awards program, Bill Clarkson, above, sifts through a mountain of applications from students seeking financial assistance with their post-secondary education. Philip Lam talks with personal loans manager Murray Dowey, right, at the Bank of Montreal.
8/25/1982
Class of '87: Dr. Hilroy Thomas, right, is opening private schools in Scarborough and Etobicoke to help students, labled under-achievers, make the grade. He says individual attention and small classes can raise a student's grade by one year. These students are catching up this summer.
Class of '87: Dr. Hilroy Thomas, right, is opening private schools in Scarborough and Etobicoke to help students, labled under-achievers, make the grade. He says individual attention and small classes can raise a student's grade by one year. These students are catching up this summer.
8/17/1987
Lionel Remillard believes the Metro School Board's policy is denying some of his students an education in their mother tongue.
Lionel Remillard believes the Metro School Board's policy is denying some of his students an education in their mother tongue.
9/20/1973
Yea. To Principal John Plumpton of Jane Junior High School in North York for trying to get more students to read books. Twice a week staff and students are given 50 minutes of the day just to read - anything they like. Some of them may discover that reading is a joy, even though it's a little more work than watching a TV scree. It's a nice idea.
Yea. To Principal John Plumpton of Jane Junior High School in North York for trying to get more students to read books. Twice a week staff and students are given 50 minutes of the day just to read - anything they like. Some of them may discover that reading is a joy, even though it's a little more work than watching a TV scree. It's a nice idea.
11/11/1977
Karl Eder, principal of the City Adult Education Centre, says he's winning the battle to get his grown students to butt out.
Karl Eder, principal of the City Adult Education Centre, says he's winning the battle to get his grown students to butt out.
4/7/1988
First woman in Metro to head a board of education, North York's Veronica Lacey, here with Grade 7 students at Willowdale Middle School, says: 'I see education as a calling
First woman in Metro to head a board of education, North York's Veronica Lacey, here with Grade 7 students at Willowdale Middle School, says: 'I see education as a calling
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