An internal Labour Party struggle is waging over the principles underlying “parent power” and the template for school-based management the policy recommends for public schools in Great Britain.
Dennis Owens
A Tale of Two School Boards
Nominally similar, the two largest school divisions in Edmonton and Winnipeg follow quite different directions in administration, programming and accountability.
Manitoba’s School Board Amalgamations—Before and After
Forced amalgamations of school divisions have not lived up to their billing. Instead of saving money, they raised costs substantially.
An Unnecessary Burden on Our Teachers
The government should cancel its plans to implement subjective assessments at the middle level and instead reinstate objective year-end examinations in core subject areas.
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
The Search for Aboriginal Property Rights
The objective of this short paper is to make the case for giving natives the normal property rights that all Canadians enjoy.
Are School Boards Obsolete?
Locally elected school boards have occupied centre stage in the provision of education in Canada from the inception of public schools. But are they really necessary?
Powering the Future
“Powering the Future” is the first in a series of short policy studies and reports to be undertaken by the Centre as part of a publishing program called “Policy Series”.