  Schools Should Focus on the EssentialsSchmoker also notes that students are more likely to learn when teachers focus on providing effective, whole-class lessons rather than trying to cater to the individual learning style of every student. He provides several examples of schools in high-poverty neighbourhoods where their students are reading well above grade level. In these schools, early years teachers engage all students in learning through whole-class lessons with regular checks for understanding. |
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 Education Faculties Should DisappearUniversity of Manitoba president David Barnard thinks it’s time to reduce the total number of faculties on their campuses. As we hear on today's Frontier Centre commentary, more than a third of them could be gone within five years. It’s time for universities to break these faculties out of their self-imposed isolation. Join us weekly across the prairies for our hard hitting policy commentary broadcast across the Goldenwest Radio Network - Click here for a list of 14 stations and broadcast times. |
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Latest PublicationsZero Tuition Makes Zero Sense— April 20, 2012Ben Eisen shows why the Alberta Liberal party’s proposal to eliminate tuition in the province is not supported by the evidence. Students Don't Know how Good They have it— April 18, 2012What is it about Quebec university students that, from one cohort to the next, they don't know how good they have it? Nearly 175,000 students are currently boycotting classes, for which they pay only about 10 per cent of the cost, in protest against the Charest government's intention to increase undergraduate tuition fees for Quebec students by $325 a year over the next five years. A Time for Choosing in Alberta Education— April 17, 2012Albertans concerned about education policy face a stark choice in the next election. Given the positions of the two leading parties, the status quo doesn't seem to be an option. One party wants to reduce standardized testing, and seems unwilling to expand successful school choice programs. The other wants to introduce a new model of standardized testing, while expanding school choice. Quebec Students Must Pay Their Share— April 13, 2012With cries of bloquons la hausse, a small army of Quebec students has taken to the streets in recent months to protest tuition increases. Jean Charest's government has announced it will raise tuition fees in the province by $325 per year for five years, to a total of $3,793 per year in 20162017. The change will take Quebec from having the lowest tuition rate in the country to - still having the lowest tuition rate in the country. Universities are Subsidizing Graduate Students at the Expense of Undergraduates— April 2, 2012Universities have perverse incentives encouraging them to enroll increasingly more graduate students. In order to meet the needs of both the students and the economy, universities will need to be forced by ministers of education to align their incentives with the social and economic needs of the country. Alberta Tories Should Shield Students from Politicized Human Rights Commissions— March 22, 2012Section 16 of the Alberta Government’s new Education Act subjects schools and pupils to the soft totalitarianism of the discredited human rights commissions. |
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