There Is Too Much Edu-Babble – August 27, 2010
Students, parents and teachers are being overwhelmed by “edu-babble.”

Test Often, Raise Standards, Manitoba Educator Urges – August 24, 2010
"Zwaagstra believes that curriculum content isn't specific enough, academic standards in schools are not strong enough and that schools shouldn't possess a no-fail policy. He went on to say that our school system has an anti-testing bias and that there isn't a balance of standardized testing and teacher-created assessment."

A Pass Should Be Earned – August 20, 2010
We don’t automatically promote bad drivers –so why would we promote students until they’ve mastered their grade?

Grades Should Reflect Achievement – August 16, 2010
In an attempt to get away from “unfair” grading, too many teachers are now forced to engage in complex calculations that are no improvement on more straightforward marking.

Rote Learning And Practice Are Important – August 6, 2010
Music students need to practice scales and continually repeat songs until they play them correctly—so why do many teachers think rote learning has no place in the classroom?

Direct Instruction Is Good Teaching – July 30, 2010
Teachers who use direct instruction assume that students are not experts and if their misinterpretations are not corrected, then the students will have an inadequate understanding of the subject matter.

Classrooms Should Be Teacher-Centered – July 23, 2010
Forget child-centered classrooms. How about teacher-centered classrooms for a change?

Some Schools Are Better Than Others – July 19, 2010
The reluctance or refusal of school boards to allow parents to choose schools for their children is especially unfair for low-income families.

How Mainstreaming Can Hurt Disabled And Regular Students – July 15, 2010
Mainstreaming every kid may not always make sense.

Students Need More Lectures – July 14, 2010
Teachers are often discouraged from lecturing students but students in traditional classrooms outperform those taught primarily through “problem solving” techniques.

Tests Are Good For Kids – June 30, 2010
Choosing to forgo summative tests in schools would be similar to providing student drivers with several weeks of driving practice but not requiring them to actually drive a car during a driver’s test.

Teacher Education Programs Are Part of the Problem in Education – June 23, 2010
A shift in the design of education curricula has resulted in students not getting to the higher levels of understanding the subjects that are often required in colleges and universities.

What’s Wrong with Our Schools – June 23, 2010
Our schools are fixable but their ills first need to be properly diagnosed.

Inspiring Education Report Lacks Inspiration – June 8, 2010
Alberta’s education minister should avoid leading his province down the path of failed romantic progressive ideologies of the past.

Kudos to Manitoba’s Education Minister – May 12, 2010
Manitoba’s education minister is doing the right thing in announcing that her department may scrap guidelines that forbid teachers from deducting marks for late assignments.

More Choice a Good Thing For School Boards – April 6, 2010
The plan by the Toronto District School Board to allow the creation of specialty schools is a positive development but needs to go much further by embracing a more expanded form of choice.

Manitoba’s Closed-Door Approach To School Information – February 8, 2010
If we want our kids to be better educated and better equipped to take on the world, openness matters—a lot.

Too Much Media is the Message – February 4, 2010
Except for sleeping, young people now spend more time watching, texting and “surfing” than anything else—hardly healthy for their education according to a new study.

Schools Need to be Graded – February 3, 2010
Winnipeg Free Press comments on Manitoba's lack of disclosure in the education system.

Province Refuses to Rank Schools – February 3, 2010
"Manitoba operates in the dark ages compared to other western provinces in its lack of information on how students perform academically at individual high schools." Coverage in the Winnipeg Free Press.