As students prepare for return to school, educators and parents in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the four Atlantic provinces should be concerned about their student test scores, according to a new...
Educational Outcomes
August 1, 2017 - Parisa Mahboubi
Ottawa should strengthen the screening process to improve the literacy skills of immigrants, states a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In The Power of Words: Improving Immigrants’...
July 20, 2017 - Qing (Felix) Li
Policymakers must find innovative ways to improve immigrants’ likelihood of finding well-paid employment, states a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Education Quality and Immigrants’...
January 28, 2016 - Barry Anderson and John Richards
Major reforms are needed to address Canada’s failing reserve schools, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Students in Jeopardy: An Agenda for Improving Results in Band-Operated...
September 16, 2015 - Andrew Parkin
Canada’s lacklustre performance on the OECD’s test of adult literacy, numeracy and problem solving has raised questions about the quality of provincial education systems, but the explanation for...
Op-Ed
Ontario's Education Quality and Accountability Office's 2016/2017 results released this week show that for the second year in a row, only 50 per cent of Grade 6 students met the provincial math...
Intelligence Memos
From: John Richards
To: Concerned Canadians
Date: August 31, 2017
Re: A Back to School Wake-up Call
In an industrial age, whether a country educates its children well is perhaps the most important...
Intelligence Memos
From: Colin Busby and Parisa Mahboubi
To: Federal and provincial ministers of immigration; provincial ministers of postsecondary education
Date: August 29, 2017
Re: Challenges for International...
Research
Il n’existe aucune relation claire entre les résultats des évaluations des élèves à l’échelle provinciale et la rémunération relative des enseignants dans les six plus importantes provinces...
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