Click to watch the clip on the Global News website Pathways to Education is working to break the cycle of poverty through education in Canada. Global’s Andrea Howick learns how the organization prepares youth for tomorrow. Watch the clip here:...

Click to watch the clip on the Global News website Pathways to Education's Sue Gillespie, and Pathways alum, Kishan, talk about how the program works to break the cycle of poverty through education. Watch the clip here:...

On facing her high school graduation on Friday, Thea Santyr had one comment: “Thank God.” As her final year of high school wraps up, Santyr is one of 54 students graduating from the Pathways to Education program. Pathways supports north Kingston...

“The housing was pretty bad. We moved about every six months, maybe a year if we were lucky,” Roberts said. “We stayed on some couches, we had some housing and food issues, but if you access the right people in your community and different programs, you can really...

I've been thinking a lot lately about social capital, and how important it is to have access to opportunities that support our growth. We want to believe we're all working on a level playing field, but the reality is that the circles we run in often impact the goals...

Talking with Halifax principal Gord McKelvie restores your faith in the potential for schools to make a difference in the lives of teens in challenging circumstances. In his 41st year of teaching, McKelvie now heads his former high school, J.L. Ilsley, in Halifax’s...

Improving metropolitan school systems can be a Herculean challenge and it has defeated wave after wave of school reform initiatives. School leadership, teacher effectiveness and program excellence can make a difference, but so can demographic shifts affecting the...

"It’s been said, pay now or pay later, and with violent crime and its financial and other impacts on society, research has shown the later costs are far greater than the costs of investments in proven early supports and interventions that improve and save lives. Of...

Rexdale’s Andre Hanna is preparing to embark on the trip of a lifetime, courtesy of Pathways to Education and Operation Groundswell (OG). As the recipient of the Catherine McIntyre Scholarship, jointly sponsored by the two Canadian non-profits,...

This is a good time to avoid shopping malls and big box stores if you can. Next to Christmas, it’s the craziest shopping season of the year as parents jostle for the latest trendy clothes, cellphones and computers — anything to help their kids fit in socially and...