1. Jim Fanning, Rural School Consolidation and Student Learning, ERIC Digest No. EDO-RC-95-4, August 1995. Fanning states that amalgamation does not result in greater achievement among students. Privatization of buildings was challenged through protests in Pictou, Judique and Margaree, Nova Scotia against Private-Public-Partnerships (P3) for new school construction, March 1999.
    Maude Barlow and H-J Robertson, Class Warfare, The Assault on Canada’s Schools, Key Porter Books, Toronto, 1994, p 79. Barlow and Robertson expose the corporate agenda in free school curriculum. Gatto, Op. Cit., pp 81-89. Gatto claims that movement toward regional and national programs and testing will only promote what he calls "the school disease." Robertson, H-J., 1998, Op. Cit., p. 136. Robertson points out a growing criticism of high technology in schools, calling it "silicon snake oil" for those enamoured with high- tech solutions to education problems.
  2. J.T. Gatto, 1992, Op. Cit., P 97.
  3. A.F. Laidlaw, The Man From Margaree, Writings and Speeches of M.M. Coady, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1971, p 142.
  4. Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community, Pantheon Books, New York, 1993, p 120.

Chapter 5

  1. Agreement between the Minister of Education of the Province of Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia Teachers Union (Teachers' Provincial Agreement), 1994.