Governments are killing real jobs and conning us about “millions of good green jobs.” “Fool me once,” Stephen King wrote, “shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.” His adage certainly applies to the myth (and fake math) of...
Senior Fellow Michael Zwaagstra is interviewed by Danielle Smith about the recent controversial motion made by newly elected trustee Lisa Davis seeking to create "third-party math monitoring" to ensure students achieve the learning improvements they deserve in math...
March 16, 2014 - Michael Zwaagstra, researcher for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, joins the discussion about a petition to change math education in Alberta in 2014. (CKNW-AM)
Here’s some bad news from the world of education: Math scores are in decline across Canada. Just as kids in Poland and Portugal and other formerly disadvantaged countries are taking great leaps forward, ours are going backward. Our high schools are graduating kids who have failed to grasp the fundamentals, and our universities are full of students who are struggling to master material they should have learned in high school.
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The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Common Sense Education gives parents, teachers and students a direct window into the foolish fads that afflict our public education system. This third of ten episodes investigates so called 'new math' and why it doesn't match up to the classic methods. The series is...
Saskatchewan’s education minister missed an opportunity when she opted to make no changes to a defective math curriculum.
The federal government employs 400,000 people, more or less – and will probably still employ 400,000 people, more or less, when it completes its modest downsizing in 2015. With a maximum hit of 12,000 people, it is a modest downsizing, indeed: one worker a year, for three years, for every 100 workers who keep their jobs.
A new study showing that Manitoba students are falling behind in math should be a wake-up call for schools and the provincial education ministry to return to proven math curricula instead of the current failed methods.
Parents taking a gander at their kid’s math textbook and wondering what the heck they’re looking at may want to check out a recent study from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, based in Winnipeg.
Canada’s math education is failing to provide students with a solid foundation in the discipline, but a renewed emphasis on mastering basic math skills can better prepare students for life.
Canada’s public schools are doing a poor job of teaching basic math skills and shortchanging a generation of children, says a study by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
Canada’s math education system has failed to teach basic math skills to students, but a renewed emphasis on mastering basic math skills can better prepare students for life.
Math education in Canada is failing has been failing to teach its students fundamental numeracy, but a renewed emphasis on mastering basic math skills can better prepare students for life.