This backgrounder describes how Aboriginal education in Canada could improve significantly if Indian bands and parents took a greater role in the education of the children in their communities, insuring prompt remedial literacy and numeracy.
Backgrounder
How to Improve Undergraduate Teaching: A Performance-Based Accountability System
This paper proposes a performance-based accountability system for university professors to improve the quality of undergraduate education in Canada.
Resource Consumption and Economic Production in Canada and the United States:: How Economic Activity in North America Benefits People Everywhere
Ben Eisen and Kenneth Green show that high levels of resource consumption in North America enables economic production and wealth creation that brings benefits to people all over the world.
Centralized Planning Poses Significant Challenges for First Responders to Disaster Situations: Frontier Centre study argues solutions that privilege grass roots
Bureaucratic, centralized disaster responses have a long history of failure.
Featured News
Canada in 2073—Will There Be One?
“Ahead, Thar Be Dragons.” The world of 2023 is a scary place. One major war is raging, with others probably on the way. The Pax Americana that has given us freedom of the seas and allowed global trade to flourish might be breaking down. International piracy,...
World Cries out for Canadian LNG, “No Business Case” Feds have Totally Failed Us
Today, Canada’s natural gas sector is seeing its decade of darkness due to federal policy. And it’s not because the opportunity wasn’t there. It was because our government allowed its ideology, and that of its anti-oil and gas friends (also known as protestors) to...
Whitehall’s Last Colonies
The transfer payment system in Britain is causing a pattern of inequities, as richer regions subsidize large public sectors and economic malaise in poorer parts of the country.
Parent Power in Britain
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.
The Potential for Grass Biofuel Pellets
A crop that grows naturally on the North American prairies could help solve our energy problems while providing farmers with an important new source of revenue.
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.
Mosquito Control With Malathion: Are There Public Health Consequences?
The spraying of malathion to control mosquitoes is a safe, effective means of preventing the spread of disease.
Sweden’s School Voucher Program
This Scandinavian country created an internal market for public education; now almost everybody wants to keep it.
Kunskapsskolan – An Entrepreneurial Success Story
Profit may be a dirty word to some, but one company motivated by it is improving public education in Sweden.
Educational Achievement in Canada
Alberta’s educational system is distinct from other provinces in two significant ways. It offers more parental choice and more accountability through standardized provincial examinations. It also performs the best in Canada by a substantial margin.
Eliminating School Property Taxes in Manitoba
The Province of Manitoba should assume full responsibility for public school financing and abandon property taxes as a revenue source.