Open Directory - Regional: North America: Canada: Education: Organizations
See also: This category in other languages: - National organization exclusively dedicated to the promotion of research, teaching and publications on Canada. Bilingual with French and English versions. - Represents colleges and institutes to government, business and industry, in Canada and internationally. Lists its members, programs and services, events, resources, job opportunities, and press releases. [English/French] - Complete and up-to-date information on Canadian higher education, Universities and Colleges, publications, international activities, scholarships, advocacy, and related information. - Provides information on employment rights in Canada. Aims to ensure that workers are being justly treated at work. - Information and resources for homeschooling and child-centred, home-based, learning. - Supports the development and maintenance of applied and industrial mathematics in Canada. Provides news, membership information and awards. [English/French]. - Brings together Canadian institutions and organizations having an interest in postgraduate education. These include universities which have active graduate degree programs, national graduate student organizations, and certain other organizations such as granting councils. - Founded in 1951, CAUT is the national voice for academic staff. Represents 30,000 teachers, librarians, researchers and other academic professionals. - Dedicated to increasing public awareness of the issues that face Canada's post-secondary institutions. - Supports Montessori school administrators, recognizing AMI/MACTE standards and offering expertise in school administration and the Montessori Method of education. - Information and resources for teachers, schools and parents whose child is dyslexic. - Dedicated to the improvement of education in Canada. Provides information about its programs, news, research and policy, and publications. - Formed in 1981 to provide post-secondary students with a united voice. Comprised of over 400,000 students from more than 60 students' unions across Canada. - National umbrella organization for parents who participate in education at local and provincial levels. Formerly named Canadian Home and School and Parent-Teacher Federation. - Founded in 1955, CLA aims to promote the study of languages and linguistics in Canada. Also publishes a scholarly journal and organizes an annual conference. - Works to advance and promote mathematics studies across the country. Includes publications, meetings, student contests, and teaching career listings. [English/French] - An educational organization devoted to philosophical inquiry into educational issues and their relevance for developing educative, caring, and just teachers, schools, and communities. Includes a newsletter and information on membership, conferences, and awards. - Brings together researchers across Canada and the world working on history and philosophy of mathematical sciences. Provides membership information, an online bulletin and proceedings of its yearly conference. - Canada's professional association focused on training, learning and performance in the workplace. Aims to be a strategic world leader driving excellence in workplace learning and impacting business success. - Dedicated to bringing together historians, philosophers, sociologists, and a wide range of interdisciplinary scholars interested in exploring all aspects of science. Provides news, membership information, a newsletter, and information regarding its yearly conferences. - Largest organization of professors, students, researchers and practitioners in education in Canada. - Brings together undergraduate students from across Canada to interact with world-class technology leaders in industry and academia. - A network for Canadian university and college students. Includes Canadian university rankings, scholarship information and a forum to help prospective Canadian university students. - A privately funded program to offer tuition assistance grants to parents who could not otherwise afford an independent elementary school for their children. - Not-for-profit organization with the mission to establish education, training and ethical standards for coaches in Canada. - A site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Provides over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search. - National voice for education in Canada. Mechanism through which ministers consult and act on matters of mutual interest, and the instrument through which they consult and cooperate with national education organizations and the federal government. - Non-profit charitable organization providing learning resources for teaching professionals. Includes book reviews and reading lists. Available in English and French. - Association of 21 Aboriginal communities that have united their efforts in the field of education. Purpose is to unify the strengths of its members in order to create a common front. - Provides a comprehensive list of scholarships for high school students. Financial aid resources are listed both based on grade level such as freshman, sophomore, junior and senior, and on school type such as public or private. - A group of parents across Canada, supported by a legal team and home school friendly staff who work together to ensure rights to direct the education of one's own children. - Promotes teaching, research and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. - Consists of 10 evangelical non-denominational Protestant Christian schools serving Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Describes its programs and employment opportunities. - The LDAC is a national, non-profit voluntary organization which was founded in 1963 and incorporated in 1971. It is dedicated to advance the education, employment, social development, legal rights and general well-being of people with learning disabilities. - National non-profit organization representing literacy coalitions, organizations and individuals. - Delivers training opportunities and career fairs, as well as awards to Canada's Aboriginal community. - Provides non-partisan research, information and communication about education to Canadian policy-makers, education partners and the public. - National federation of English as a Second Language teachers, learners and learner advocates. - Presents the views and opinions of principals and vice-principals regarding a variety of issues. - Information on a syndrome which interferes with language and social interaction, coupled with a precocious ability to read. - Collects, organizes, and distributes information, and acts as a national clearing house and referral service to support the recognition and portability of Canadian and international educational and occupational qualifications.
