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Then They Came For the Teachers

Then They Came For the Teachers

Hymie Rubenstein and Rodney A. Clifton, January 3, 2017 “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.) That white,...

American Job Losses and NAFTA

Decades of steady trade liberalization have served Canada’s economic development. As the Montreal Economic Institute’s Mathieu Bédard noted recently in FP Comment (“Trump’s anti-NAFTA myths spread north,” July 14), the NAFTA years...

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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.

Reading, Writing, ROI

How did we — teachers, principals and our chief executive, Paul Vallas — do it? We defined the district’s “customers” exclusively as the 200,000 children we serve. Not interest groups. Not adult constituencies. We held adults accountable for results.

School Daze – Enrolments

To keep taxes from exploding in the future, we will need to keep the lid on fiscal spending on programs that governments can save money on. Education is especially important in this regard, since our low fertility rate is leading to declining school enrolment.