Time for School

Key Selling Points

• Explores the past, present and future of schools and who learns, why we learn, where we learn, when we learn and how we learn.
• Explores current topics including inclusivity and equity in access to education, cyberbullying, SOGI curriculum, book bans, technology and AI in the classroom, alternative schools, nature schools and Indigenous land-based education.
• Young readers will discover what it was like to go school around the world at different times in human history, including in Ancient Rome, a one-room schoolhouse in 19th-century North America and in secret schools during World War Two.
• Includes facts and statistics about kids and school. Boston Latin is the oldest public school in the United States and it opened in 1635. The COVID-19 pandemic meant 370 million children were at risk of missing free school meals. Most kids in North America get to school by vehicle, but others bike, walk or take a boat, subway, snowmobile, or gondola.
• Leah Payne is public librarian, writer and editor. She has written two books in the Orca Footprints series: Less is More: Join the Low-Waste Movement and Get Outside: How Humans Connect with Nature.