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Quebec-based non-profit Youth Fusion takes over student press Learning for a Cause and sets to make it a project aimed at countering drop out rates.

Noted Canadian public school educator and writer Michael Ernest Sweet declined acceptance of the NCTE Teacher of Excellence Award this week in Philadelphia claiming, “that it was not conferred in the right spirit”.

Leading Canadian Educator Michael Ernest Sweet wins a 2009 National Council of Teachers of English Teaching Award for founding The Learning for a Cause Student Press in Montreal, Quebec.

The Pearson Prize - A premier Canadian teen choice award for small press and self-published authors - is seeking submissions for it's 2010 competition. Authors can submit their books for free and have their work taught in a high school classroom.

Montreal Teacher Michael Ernest Sweet is a 2009 Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence Laureate in Recognition of his Founding a Student Press.

125 Montreal and New York high school writers are set to release a new anthology with guest writer Emmy-award-winner Martin Sheen. The anthology, a publication of the award-winning project Learning for a Cause, explores the idea of being human.

A New Book Award was Announced in Montrea. The Pearson Prize - Teen Choice Award is a way for high school students to get books to read and review and an opportunity for an author to win an award all in one and all for FREE!

Windsor Nova Scotia native and now resident of Montreal, Canadian educator Michael Ernest Sweet inducted into National Teachers Hall of Fame - Wall of Fame - and the International Who's Who as one of public education's top 1000.

Emmy award-winning actor Martin Sheen has joined Lester B. Pearson High School's Learning for a Cause Writing Project . Sheen is set to write the foreword to the project's 2009 Anthology titled "Raising Humanity" - an exploration of humanity.