Elitism has been an issue in Canadian French immersion since its inception. This study examines how two racially diverse Ontarian school boards and Ontario policy, curricula, other related documents construct support elite student within the program. The who emerged from is a White, middle-class, English, established resident, mirroring current demographics of A middle-class bias due to assumed...

In this paper a Multiobjective Optimization Genetic Algorithm, named Reduced Pareto Set Genetic Algorithm with Elitism (RPSGAe), is presented and its performance assessed. The algorithm is compared with other MOEA ́s using three difficult problems from the literature and a sophisticated statistical comparison technique. The preliminary results obtained showed that the RPSGAe outperform the other...

While previous studies have framed the construction of elite identities in context prestigious organizations as unambiguous, this paper investigates across different contexts potentially contested and tension-ridden, due to both positive negative societal connotations with elitism. Based on 36 interviews ex-consultants, indicates how people engage an discourse multiple ways when reporting upon ...