After abandoning standardized tests, teachers find that they’re worse off with the soft student assessments designed to replace them.
Year: 2003
Educational Accountability in Manitoba
In 2000 Manitoba abolished the Grade 3 standards tests and made the Grade 6 and 9 standards tests optional. Only Grade 12 tests have remained in place on a compulsory basis. These changes have reduced the province’s level of educational accountability.
The Lone Eagles
Executive Summary The development of instantaneous, rapid and reliable communications systems is transforming the rural areas of North America. The exponential expansion of the necessary infrastructure to the most remote regions, often expressed as the “death of...
Foreign students flock to Manitoba classrooms
FOREIGN students will pump more than $50 million into the Manitoba economy this year and bring global faces to classrooms..
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
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Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Move that fire hydrant
Here are four small ways to make a city’s neighbourhood roads work better, all of them cost-effective, all of them betterments to the quality of life, none of them needing money from away.
Dr. Yvonne Chan, Award-winning School Principal
Disadvantaged children can learn, as this visionary educator proved in inner-city Los Angeles.
Hamiota: Rolling Along
Hamiota continues to thrive, with the livestock industry as its base.
Back Seat Drivers
New Zealand’s ACT Party has influence, like the NDP did in Canada in the 1970s..
Kyoto Debunked
More on the shaky science behind Kyoto
Maxing Out Performance In Public Schools
Edmonton’s failing public school system turned itself into a dynamo by decentralizing its lines of authority.
Andrew Nikiforuk, Author and Journalist
The Frontier Centre discusses public school reform with an expert . . .
Three Independent Think Tanks Offer New Prime Minister New Policy Vision
Three independent think tanks offer policy ideas to incoming Prime Minister Paul Martin
Mandate for New Leadership for a New Prime Minister
Three independent Canadian think tanks offers ideas to move Canada forward ..